Like many classics, Narnia has been updated #funny #humor #cslewis #narnia #writing #ikea

George MacDonald (1824–1905) was born #OTD, 10 Dec. One of the earliest theorists of the fantastic, & grandfather of modern fantasy literature, he was read & admired by CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien & Madeleine L’Engle, among others

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🎨 : Cecilia Harrison (1863–1941)

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https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/3082

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(cont'd) If we know nothing else about Carcosa, it's that simple fact. The place is lost in some sense, maybe literally, maybe figuratively...but there's been a loss, a bereavement. To know Carcosa is to know loss.

In other words...if it's salvation we're looking for down here on Earth, it's not likely Carcosa is any better off. We here stranded on this tiny but pretty planet know what it's like to feel lost, as if we've been abandoned beyond all possible help. If there's no God then our best last hope is to look skyward, and hope that there's some force or influence out there—even if it's a nearby supernova or something catastrophic like that—which might...shake things up. Something inexorable, something undeniable, an irresistible power.

Some people try to locate Heaven, or some approximation thereof, out in space. Hell's bells...#CSLewis did. Perelandra is his half-arsed attempt to recapitulate The Fall, only with a happy ending this time, on a heavily fictionalized planet #Venus. Other people have tried to situation fictional utopias or idealized societies somewhere up in space.

~Chara (cont'd)

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I don't want to lose the #Internet, heavens no! I really hope the worst doesn't happen, because I have long feared U.S. capitalist breakdown advancing to the point where the owners were deciding it was easier to sell their equipment (and their copper wiring) as junk, rather than maintain it. There's too many hints of technology executives waiting for some utter collapse, because then they can flee to their various "network state" hideaways or their Sea Orgs or whatever. People like this always figure they can disappear somewhere, to have a laugh about the whole rum do.

(smiles a tiny bit) I vaguely recall that Mark Studdock in That Hideous Strength by #CSLewis evinces such feelings, as does Lord Feverstone. What's the worst that can happen after dabbling with eldritch powers? Slip away quietly before it all goes kablooey, and enjoy drinks round the fireplace.

~Chara (cont'd)

C.S. Lewis by Walter Stoneman, 1955

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/12/02/c-s-lewis-by-walter-stoneman-1955/

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I Art I CS Lewis https://bit.ly/3wzXNSl
Happy birthday CS Lewis !
Did you know that Lewis gave away the royalties from his books?
#art #design #zerflin #zerflinwork #zerflinart #illustration #CSLewis

"Narnia always fascinated me." - MIKE SACKS, An interview with Mike Sacks (creator of StanLand), StanLand #StanLand #HappyBirthdayCSLewis #CSLewis #MikeSacks

"Even as a kid, the stories felt derivative, like a cheap, but more disturbed, Narnia rip-off." - MELANIE HUGHES, The Scion, the Glitch, and the IKEA Wardrobe, StanLand #StanLand #HappyBirthdayCSLewis #CSLewis #MelanieHughes

#thesilverchair #thechroniclesofnarnia #cslewis #narnia #fantasy #newpurchase #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #midureads #booklover #bookishcommuníty #bookcommunity #bookaholic #bookaddict #fantasyreader #instareads #youngadult #classics

But disease and insanity have been especially tempting concepts to equate with sinfulness, for a great many #Christian fanatics, because these are things that can afflict someone who once was healthy and sinless. Contracting a disease or developing a mental disorder gives them a way of explaining temptation in a manner that doesn't encourage them to think about their own tendencies to be tempted. Others make the mistake of getting sick or going mad, but the good and pure person, the person of pristine health and sound "genetics", they remain untouched by sin and the wiles of the Devil.

It's been no help whatever, of course, that writers of Christian apologetics such as G. K. #Chesterton and the obnoxious #CSLewis have freely appealed to analogies involving health and sanity in order to justify their own zeal for proselytization.

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SONG OF THE WEEK “A Place Across the Sky” https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/a-place-across-the-sky

#sky #johnnyjblair #mikeroe #michaelroe #jessie #puppy #childlike #discovery #alexanderkey #cslewis #spacetrilogy #beachboys #moodyblues #10cc #surfrock #spacerock #seventysevens

@Nigel_Purchase all the U.S. (and Canadian =) Christofascist quasi-intellectuals need to do is whisper the magic words "C. S. Lewis" and the British politicians will faint dead away into a stupor of prettified, insufferably nostalgized depictions of Jack Lewis as Father Christmas (a role he loved to play—#CSLewis was an early exponent of #cosplay) and they'll do anything the Republicans want.

I feel as if the evangelical types in America vaguely feel that Jack Lewis is theirs. So much of that C. S. Lewis brand is their work, not Lewis's. And American colleges have claimed all Jack Lewis's papers.

And other #Inklings' papers, which seems just a little twisted to me. Has #Britain so little regard for its own literary giants that they're willing to cede custody of the legacy of an entire literary club to a pack of U.S. Bible bashers who most definitely do NOT have disinterested "Lewis scholarship" solely in mind?

White Magic & Black Magic: What are Magia & Goetia? What makes magic white or black? What did C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien think? https://youtube.com/shorts/rTBxygcTgFw #magic #magick #Inklings #CSLewis #jrrtolkien #Tolkien #books #literature #OnMondaysWeDoMagic

A quotation from C. S. Lewis

There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.

C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) English writer, literary scholar, lay theologian [Clive Staples Lewis]
The Screwtape Letters, Preface (1942 ed.)

More info about this quote: wist.info/lewis-cs/80231/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cslewis #screwtape #devils #error #magic #materialism #spirits #theology

‘There are no ordinary people.’

So said CS Lewis.

My thoughts when I read this:

1. What is ‘ordinary’?
3. Who decided what is ordinary and what is not?
4.I believe everyone has something unique and exceptional about them. it just may be deeply buried.

Suggestion for the week: looking at people you meet with wonder and awe. Let’s create a positive ripple of acknowledging everyone’s individual light.

#cslewis #ordinary #unique #lightwithin