Into the Wardrobe

Jack complains he finds it hard to write letters, times when he wants a break from study would be perfect to chat with a friend but he isn't at all in the mood to write a letter. Then he says "I often wonder how the born letter writers whose 'works' fill volumes overcame this difficulty."

He was already doing pretty well, given that this occurs on page 518 of the Collected Letters of CS Lewis, which will eventually be three volumes.

Steve, I was recently chuckling at another ironic Lewis line from a letter to Arthur Greeves:

You know, I think, that I believe in no religion. There is absolutely no proof for any of them, and from a philosophical standpoint, Christianity is not even the best.

But Hooper would only have sent emails for about a month. That was as long as he knew Jack.


Oh, you mean if Jack had lived for another 40 years?

I think he would probably grumble about it (I know I do), but he was a professor at Oxford. I've checked, and all of them have e-mail now even auxiliary professors. The University needs a way to communicate with them and so do their students. Today that means e-mail. So I think he would have to use it, but I do doubt he would like it - far too modern.

But then...this forum is a very modern sort of thing, and I like it despite my vitriolic condemnation of all things modern. So maybe Jack would too.