We call them by cold names wisdom and courage and beauty and strength and so on, but actually they are very great and mighty Powers.
That this world is created, and all men and women are created, by the entrance of certain great principles into aboriginal matter.
Foster, who ends up one of the story’s more unfortunate characters, gives this its clearest exposition when he explains that the leader of the group believes The basic situation: a little philosophical study group has been meeting to discuss the notion, developed both in Plato and (in this story) in an ancient manuscript about the angels present in the creation, that the world was made of eternal energies and ideas bodied forth in material things.
But from the lion of the title to the Platonic vision unfolded in the fictional town of Smetham, this book surely provides the inspiration for many of Lewis’ works, including the Chronicles of Narnia and the space trilogy. Tolkien was uneasy with Lewis’ admiration for this author’s imagination. Lewis was deeply moved by this “strange” tale. I became curious about it when I read The Magician’s Book and learned that C.S. The light is blotted out by a dark shape in the window: corruption, in the form of a huge, foul bird.Ĭharles Williams’ The Place of the Lion is sprinkled with such emblematic scenes. To the discerning eye, little tongues of flame briefly trace the edge of a doorframe, an umbrella stand, a bookcase - then disappear.Ī woman studying at a table smells a witheringly bad stench. Looking up, he sees a tiny circle of sky high above him, pouring down the sides of the chasm like a waterfall.Ī house feels unusually warm. A man steps from a bedroom out to the landing and finds himself on a precipice.
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