Lewis Quote: On Essays
Just ran across the most wonderful quote from C.S. Lewis' The Horse and His Boy as I was reading it to my children as part of our usual bedtime ritual (which, for the last couple of years has consisted of a Bible story, a story from the complete Thomas the Tank Engine collection, and a chapter from one of the Narnian Chronicles - we're on our second pass through both of the latter now). It struck me as particularly wonderful right now as I am writing my thesis and marking essays over Spring Break!
In Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to read the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.
posted by Fr. Justin (Edward)
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Yay for The Horse and His Boy! That was my mother's favorite of the Narnia books. Hi Fr. Justin, it's Alanna. Dave gave me your web address and I thought I'd say hi.
Hello, Alanna! Nice of you to drop by! I think each of the Narnia books have been my favourite at one point or another.
I always thought that The Horse and His Boy was the least allegorical of the Narnian Chronicles until I finally realized that the whole book is an allegory of salvation...
Ahh...you can always trust that if you "stick around" an Orthodox discussion or blog long enough, C. S. Lewis will eventually be mentioned. I must admit I have had a slight distrust of Lewis over the years, but am working to cultivate a sense of appreciate, or at least happy tolerance. So now I am working through the Narnian Chronicles (first time since I was very young), and I just completer "The Silver Chair" last night.
On another note, I always regret the fact that there is no way to write with italics on blogs and most emails. This bothers me when referring to titles of books, movies, albums, etc. Do you know any secrets about how to do that?
a sense of appreciation, that is
A distrust of Lewis?!? Do tell... Where did this distrust of Lewis come from, and on what was it based? There were a few in my assembly (my church before I became Orthodox) who didn't trust Lewis, but I was never one of them...
And you can do bold, underline, and italics in Blogger comments now, if you know how to use HTML tags. Just put < b > (without the spaces) at the beginning of whatever you want to make bold, and < / b > at the end of it (again, without the spaces). Substituing "i" for "b" will put things in italics, and "u" is (surprise, surprise) for underlining.
People in your assembly didn't trust Lewis? Strange... I suppose my parents left ours when I was 12 so my memory is a bit vague, but somehow I ended up with a possibly overly healthy reliance on Lewis.
You have any idea how to make our blogs show user pictures on the regular comment display page as it does when we're actually posting comments?
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