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What if Lewis were alive today?

Postby jo » May 30th, 2006, 11:31 am

"I saw it begin,” said the Lord Digory. “I did not think I would live to see it die"

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Postby Charis » May 30th, 2006, 2:11 pm

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Postby Stanley Anderson » May 30th, 2006, 2:18 pm

I wonder if he would have been struck by the interesting fact that Kennedy and Huxley died on the same day?:-)

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Postby jo » May 30th, 2006, 4:39 pm

"I saw it begin,” said the Lord Digory. “I did not think I would live to see it die"

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Postby carol » May 31st, 2006, 7:29 am

Given that he didn't have a radio, read the newspaper, or have a television, or go to the cinema, I can guarantee that he wouldn't be available on the internet, would have NO mobile phone, wouldn't play video games (had no top joint in his thumbs anyway, which made him clumsy), would have an imitation firelog gas fire, would not have worn flared trousers in the 70s, would not wear jeans.....
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Postby Areida » June 1st, 2006, 5:12 am

I think he'd be sorely disappointed in our youth today. I'll bet the consistent use of "like" would probably drive him up the wall too.
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Postby Steve » June 1st, 2006, 3:33 pm

Psalm 139:17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!
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Postby Steve » June 1st, 2006, 3:34 pm

Psalm 139:17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!
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Postby Sven » June 1st, 2006, 7:57 pm

Rat! he found breath to whisper, shaking. Are you afraid?
Afraid? murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love.
Afraid! Of Him? O, never, never! And yet -- and yet -- O, Mole, I am afraid!
Then the two animals, crouching to the earth, bowed their heads and did worship.
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Postby Steve » June 1st, 2006, 8:23 pm

Psalm 139:17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!
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Postby magpie » June 2nd, 2006, 12:38 am

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Postby David » June 2nd, 2006, 12:45 pm

If Lewis were alive today he would probably think he had come into the infernal regions. The world is so crazy and has departed so far from what he called the Tao, the universally acknowledged code of ethics common to most cultures that he would be flabberghasted. A lot of the things he wrote about in The Abolition of Man then put into fictionalized form in That Hideous Strength are coming to pass.
The way, the weather, the terrain, the discipline, the leadership. --Sun Tzu
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