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Dear
Phyllida,
Thanks
for your most interesting cards. How do you get the gold so good? Whenever I
tried to use it, however golden it looked on the shell, it always looked only
like rough brown on the paper. Is it that you have some trick with the brush
that I never learned, or that gold paint is better now than when I was a boy!
[...]
I'm
not quite sure what you meant about "silly adventure stories without my
point". If they are silly, then having a point won't save them. But if
they are good in themselves, and if by a "point" you mean some truth
about the real world which which one can take out of the story, I'm not sure
that I agree. At least, I think that looking for a "point" in that
sense may prevent one sometimes from getting the real effect of the story in
itself - like listening too hard for the words in singing which isn't meant to
be listened to that way (like an anthem in a chorus). I'm not at all sure about
all this, mind you: only thinking as I go along.
We
have two American boys in the house at present, aged 8 and 6 1/2. Very nice.
They seem to use much longer words than English boys of that age would: not
showing off, but just because they don't seem to know the short words. But they
haven't as good table manners as English boys of the same sort would. [...]
yours,
C.S. Lewis
Letters
to Children (letter of Dec 18 1953)
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