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What if Lewis were alive today?

The man. The myth.

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Postby jo » June 2nd, 2006, 7:24 pm

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

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I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. -- Jorge Luis Borges
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Postby carol » June 2nd, 2006, 10:20 pm

Here's the relevant bit from my notes at the Sydney conference (I'm sure Doug says very similar things, very often - there are only so many questions people ask, and therefore a lot of similar answers):

Q on Jack and music:

In later years, he didn't listen to music at all; he said he had grown out of it, and was embarrassed that he had ever liked Wagner!
Jack never read newspapers, didn't listen to the radio, didn't have TV. The only media was outgoing (reporters asking Jack about something) – only in the kitchen, where the gardener read a newspaper and Joy did the crosswords! He never bothered about about politics, saw that they had little to do with real life.
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Postby David » June 3rd, 2006, 2:31 am

I've heard he did not like the popular press--newspapers and popular magazines--because these publications had so misrepresented World War I and functioned as propaganda organs for the British Government during that time. Like Orwell, Lewis distrusted the popular press. He once wrote to an American girl who asked his advice on how to become a writer, and one of things he said was not read magazines.
The way, the weather, the terrain, the discipline, the leadership. --Sun Tzu
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Postby markehlers » June 3rd, 2006, 10:43 pm

"The cure for death is dying."
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Postby Stanley Anderson » June 4th, 2006, 1:47 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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