Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963

Name: Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963
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Author: Клайв Стейплз Льюис

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Клайв Стейплз Льюис

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Биографии и мемуары

Год написания книги

2018

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(#ulink_ca1a6b9b-0a50-5e6e-bff5-720927914465) That I believe is entirely new and of immense importance.

Since you can write like that, then, though of course exactly the same type wouldn’t do, you must introduce the same precision into your factual works.

We’ve never talked about Aylwin

(#ulink_8d66958d-0e47-5677-b8cc-a7189e4367db) have we? I don’t know it.

Something funny has happened to the spelling of Danae and Pasiphae on p. 79.

(#ulink_04a83b52-b0d4-5693-8b1b-3d8a315256e1) I suppose you assumed that [because] Lat. æ (dipthong) = Gr αι in some places, it therefore does in all. But in those two fem. names the ē (η) is the ordinary fem. ending as in Phoebē and the preceding a has nothing to do with the matter.

Give my love and duty to June.

I’ve nearly finished the last chronicle.

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Yours ever

Jack

Dănăe but Mōīrāī

TO CLIFFORD W. STONE (BOD):

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Magdalen College

Oxford, England

Feb. 27. 1953

Dear Mr. Stone

Thank you very much for Report from Paradise which turned up a few days ago.

(#ulink_d9c7a90b-f32b-5408-93ad-aa16505bc81c) I read it always with amusement and at times with deep interest. Of course one mustn’t expect from it the edge and force of a story on the same subject either by a real believer or a real militant sceptic like Anatole France: but within its limits it is good. How v. unexpected that Mark Twain of all people shd. tell us at such length that Heaven is not egalitarian. That raised my opinion of his insight. And what a light it casts on his religious upbringing that all the great ones of his Heaven are from the Old Testament–prophets and patriarchs, not a word about apostles and martyrs!

I met his work first in a very funny way-reading the Yankee at the Court of K. Arthur

(#ulink_d6a9a99d-c118-55d8-81c0-eabbe55bd990) as a small boy simply and solely for the sake of the Arthurian stuff in it and ignoring the satiric or burlesque elements. Only years later did I come to know & love the great work–by wh. I mean Huckleberry Finn.

With v. many thanks and all good wishes.

Yours sincerely

C. S. Lewis

TO ARTHUR GREEVFS (BOD):

Magdalen College

Oxford

Feb 27. 53

My dear Arthur

I wd. love to come away with you this year again but it couldn’t be earlier than last year. I have been put on to examine this year which will keep me busy at Oxford into the first week of August. My jaunt with W. could be made to come after my jaunt with you instead of before it if you wish, I expect. I hope this doesn’t spoil things for you?

Someone has given me Armadale. It is clearly not so good as the famous two but well worth reading.

I’m in such pain with sinusitis today I can’t think straight: so if any of this letter doesn’t make sense you’ll understand! I’m not lecturing at Queen’s.

Yours

Jack

TO GEOFFREY BLES (BOD):

Magdalen College

Oxford

ii/iii/53

My dear Bles

I return the drawings

(#ulink_76095c25-3a42-59cc-8678-2186e39bc37a) which I think the best set Miss Baynes has done for us yet. There is, as always, exquisite delicacy: and I think the faces (human faces) are greatly improved. It is difficult to find 10 that one wd. willingly reject. The ones I suggest for omission are:

6. ‘She found she could lie on her back.’ No real sense of wind in it. Her hair ought to be blowing straight forward. 8. ‘Leaning one hand’ etc.

10. The poet. Not our idea of a blind bard at all!

17. The stone-throwing giants. Has its merits, but the travellers ought to be carrying packs, not parcels in their hands like trippers!

36. The gnome. I think better of this than you do but he is too like a human brat out of Dickens’s London, and since we must cut some, this is a good candidate.

39. The Dance. Her dances are usually lovely, but this is not one of her best.

42. The Centaurs.

43. Ruined by the utterly un-numinous, foreshortened Asian in the background. (I wish you, who live in town, wd. take an afternoon off and conduct Miss Baynes round the Zoo! In quadrupeds claudicat.)

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