FWIW, my shiny new tagline is CS Lewis--but it seemed appropriate to the new board.
(For posterity, "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.")
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FWIW, my shiny new tagline is CS Lewis--but it seemed appropriate to the new board.
(For posterity, "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.")
Mr. Lewis, meet Richard Dawkins. Mr. Dawkins meet C.S. Lewis.
Snerk! Gar is right; it infuriates me when people say things like "but everyone was anti-Semitic then." Well, no they weren't. Just for a start, an awful lot of Jews weren't anti-Semitic. (Some were, of course.)
Yes, those "everyones" are a disservice to the bold exceptions and an arrogant view of ourselves.
I was going to say something about having the courage of your convictions and bravery in the face of ingnorance and oppression, but smarter people than I have said it and I'm tired. Go look them up and pretend I said it.
I've never read any C. S. Lewis. t /Not wanting to be left out of the CSL conversation
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Thanks Megan, I was trying to remember that yesterday, to no avail.
It's funny -- from the look of this thread, it seems like we deal with our authors just as we deal with our grandparents: trying to mediate betwen gratefulness for what they gave us and grudges against their flaws. Okay, that's not very profound.
But, you know. I don't often think of authors as like relatives, or even, I confess, like people. They're just the secret hand inside the puppet. They give me novels, and the novels are good or bad and I'm grateful for them or try to forgive them their flaws, but it hardly occurs to me to think that way about authors.