Turns out people really like me waffling about Narnia on Twitter.
So here’s a more hopeful spin on Susan Pevensie. (From the author’s pen to your eyeballs.)
My favorite story is that one time Tolkien was with some writer friends and he was like “oh I’ve got a new story to show you guys” and one of them was like “as long as it’s not more fucking elves”
and it was
it was more fucking elves
This story is better when you know that the writer friend who said that was C.S. Lewis.
…the neat sorting-out of books into age-groups, so dear to publishers, has only a very sketchy relation with the habits of any real readers. Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table.
C.S. Lewis (via muralofsolitude)
Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and were glad when you had found them. Become that child again … You have gone far wrong. Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.
C.S. Lewis (via yesdarlingido)
