a hiatus...

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Sorry that there will be a bit of a hiatus during my absence in 'foreign parts' for the next 10 weeks. I will try to post on occasi...
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"Susan, Eve's Daughter," said Father Christmas.

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"Susan, Eve's Daughter," said Father Christmas. "These are for you," and he handed her a bow and a quiver full of ar...

All Hallows Eve

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Lester looked round her. She saw the stars; she saw the lights; she saw dim shapes of houses and trees in a landscape which was less familia...

I am sure...

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... that some are born to write as trees are born to bear leaves: for these, writing is a necessary mode of their own development. If the im...

Beren & Lúthien in Angband

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(Lines 3850 - 3865 of the The Geste of Beren and Lúthien) Into the vast and echoing gloom,________________3850 more dread than many-tunnelle...

YOU MUST LOOK AT IT TODAY... [Click Here]

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An ever-expanding Virtual Tour of Oxford University and City. Now with over 2,500 panoramas from all around Oxford, including most of the co...
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Jack and Joy... and marriage

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For we did learn and achieve something. There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. I...

The famous Jack Lewis quote on Marriage...

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C.S. Lewis on Marriage Protection “... I should like to distinguish two things which are very often confused. The Christian conception of m...
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Tolkien on Marriage

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more...
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Eden's Courtesy

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Such natural love twixt beast and man we find That children all desire an animal book, And all brutes, not perverted from their kind, Woo us...
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Despair?

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"I will not seek it," the other replied. "It has been opened once and it is enough. And you,are you sure that man can conquer...

The Other Mrs. Moore

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"There was in the grounds of The Kilns when I arrived there, away over beyond the desolate tennis court, a small two roomed weather-bo...

Time Magazine

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Above is the cover of the issue of Time Magazine which featured Lewis in the context of his novel work on spirituality, The Screwtape Letter...

To Laurence Harwood

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Nothing much has happened to me except that I saw a rabbit yawn . I suppose people who keep tame ones have seen it often but this was a wil...

Looking 'Along' and Looking 'At'

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I was standing today in the dark toolshed. The sun was shining outside and through the crack at the top of the door there came a sunbeam. Fr...
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James Bond - An Inklings connection!

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The year was 1959, Polish actor Vladek Sheybal arrived in England not knowing anyone and unable to speak English. He supported himself by wo...

Under the Mercy

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The grave of Charles Williams in an Oxford churchyard is marked by a stone bearing his name and the terse description: Poet , followed by th...

Williams on Adam and Eve

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They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it. (He Came Down From...

Sweeter also than honey...

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"More to be desired are they than gold, yea than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb" (Psalm 19). One can we...

The Inquisition

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One might think that the phrase of Lord Acton (that "it cannot really be held that in Rome sixteen centuries after Christ men did not k...