by Clive Staples Lewis (1956) “You will go to your death, then,” said Jewel. “Do you think I care if Aslan doomes me to death?” said the King. “That would be nothing, nothing at all. Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is … [Read more…]
by Clive Staples Lewis (1953) “Many fall down, and few return to the sunlit lands” “Very well. We’ll have to manage without it. But there’s one thing more I want to know. If this owls’ parliment, as you call it, is all fair and above board and means no mischief, why does it have to … [Read more…]
by Clive Staples Lewis (1952) Where sky and water meet, Where the waves grow sweet, Doubt not, Reepicheep, To find all you seek, There is the utter East. (On Board The Dawn Treader) At first the only people who cheered were those who had been warned by Bern’s messenger and knew what was happening and … [Read more…]
by Clive Staples Lewis (1951) “Is it possible, Glenstorm?” said the Badger. “The time is ripe,” said Glenstorm. “I watch the skies, Badger, for it is mine to watch, as it is yours to remember. Tarva and Alambil have met in the halls of high heaven, and on earth a son of Adam has once … [Read more…]
by Clive Staples Lewis (1955) “Why, if we can get back to our own world by jumping into this pool, mightn’t we get somewhere else by jumping into one of the others? Supposing there was a world at the bottom of every pool.” “But I thought we were already in your Uncle Andrew’s Other World … [Read more…]
So they went and knocked on the study door, and the Professor said “Come in,” and got up and found chairs for them and said he was quite at their disposal. Then he sat listening to them with the tips of his fingers pressed together and never interrupting, till they had finished the whole story. … [Read more…]