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Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963
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Feb 3rd 1953
Dear Starr
Thanks for your immensely interesting letter from antipodean Po’Lu.
(#ulink_95649a1e-55a9-56f0-b451-98afc4a033e8) I shall be v. intrigued to hear more of the Arthurian story as told there, tho’ more so to hear what their own chivalric stories are like.
I have no adventures to tell you in return–unless it is an adventure that I have at last finished, and am now reading proofs of, my volume on 16th Century literature. It is an adventure to me to be free of that 12-15 year labour. I know now how Ariel felt,
(#ulink_3b165596-f9f6-5286-95fa-b4d5ddfc216f) or how a balloon feels when the sandbags are thrown out.
Your F. H. Heard sounds worth following up. I have just read two books by an American ‘scientifiction’ author called Ray Bradbury. Most of that genre is abysmally bad, a mere transference of ordinary gangster or pirate fiction to the sidereal stage, and a transference which does harm not good. Bigness in itself is of no imaginative value: the defence of a ‘galactic’ empire is less interesting than the defence of a little walled town like Troy. But Bradbury has real invention and even knows something about prose. I recommend his Silver Locusts.
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When do you revisit Europe? Don’t stay out yonder till you grow yellow. And try to correct your young friend’s idea of what it wd. be like meeting someone who’d been to Heaven! All good wishes for this (so far not v. attractive) year.
Yours
C. S. Lewis
P.S. (By the other Lewis). I too greatly enjoyed the letter. Remember seeing the tomb of the 47 Ronin when I was in Japan, but no one cd. tell me who they were or what they did.
(#ulink_2a788f7f-885b-50bc-9878-63caf59c5287) This is Tuesday, Bird and Baby day, and I’m off to drink good luck to you.
W.H.L
TO ANTHONY BOUCHER (P):
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Magdalen College
Oxford
5/ii/53
Dear Mr. Boucher
This is a delightful meeting. I did indeed value St. Aquin very highly and I have also greatly enjoyed Star-Dummy in its different way.
(#ulink_d3f0faaf-4c30-5047-867b-260ba6da3997) This wd. go for nothing if I were the real out-and-out S F reader who is, within that field, omnivorous. In reality I’m extremely hard to please. Most of the modern work in this genre seems to me atrocious: written by people who just take an ordinary spy-story or ship-wreck story or gangster story and think it can be improved by a sidereal or galactic setting. In reality the setting, so long as it is a mere setting, does harm: the wreck of a schooner is more interesting than that of a space-ship and the fate of a walled village like Troy moves us more than that of a galactic empire. You, and (in a different way) Ray Bradbury, are the real thing.
All my imagination at present is going into children’s stories. When that is done, I may try another fantasy for adults, but it wd. be too quiet and leisurely for your magazine.
I don’t belong to a press-cutting agency and so miss, along with many brickbats, some bouquets intended for me. I must thank you in the dark, therefore, for kind things you have apparently said about my work. (I found that neither the favourable nor the unfavourable reviews helped one at all: they merely either soothed or wounded one’s vanity-neither a very beneficial experience. They v. often hadn’t even read the book with any accuracy).
The ‘Antiparody’ (a word we need) of the Lord’s Prayer in Star Dummy was very fine.
Thank you v. much for the year of F & S F. I hope there will be plenty of your work in it.
If you are ever in England or I in U.S.A. we must most certainly meet and split a CH
CH
OH together. Urendi Maleldil.
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Yours
C. S. Lewis
TO MARY VAN DEUSEN (W): TS
Magdalen College,
Oxford.
5th February 1953.
Dear Mrs. Van Deusen,
I am writing to Genia, and you have my deepest sympathy. Of course you all have my prayers. No doubt by this time you have had my answer to your last letter.
Yours sincerely,
C. S. Lewis
TO GEOFFREY BLES (BOD): TS
REF.28/53.
Magdalen College,
Oxford.
6th February 1953.
My dear Bles,
Thanks for the highly satisfactory statement and the cheque for £793-12-3.1 would like very much to come up to lunch and go through the new illustrations when they arrive.
We are both pretty well thanks: I had no more of the ‘flu than could be settled by a week-end of aspirin and early hours. I hope you have both been equally fortunate. How many more false springs are we to have before the real one?
Yours,
C. S. Lewis
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