CS Lewis
Wednesday I went to Richie’s ENGL 249 “Special Topic: Creating and Destroying Worlds in Children’s Fantasy” lecture on CS Lewis’ life. It was great. The lecturer (who described himself as a ‘pious agnostic’) obviously really likes Lewis. He mentioned something interesting: CSL used to debate and win against all comers at The Socratic Club until he met his match, a Catholic woman who was a follower of Wittgenstein. Lewis, defeated, apparently gave up debating and argument as a means of proving Christianity, and turned to story instead. This is approximately when he started writing the Narnia series.
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never read any CSL
too cool
too cool?
who you or him?
elucidate?
that’s an interesting fact matty. cool.
that’s interesting. makes me think about the relationship between philosophy and literature. not exactly sure in what way though.
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