#barfield

[garrettglaser]

James made some new Barfield comics tonight. I love them so much

[agnesdemile01]

Ok hear me out. What if the reason Jasper was so keen on keeping Barfield in danger games was because he saw a part of himself in him? Like yk what if when he found Barfield in a bush he thought he was abandoned, neglected, alone, unsafe, so he decided he would keep him because he knows what it's like to be neglected. Maybe the reason he didn't want his parents to claim him was because he thought Barfield would be unsafe with them yk? Ok delusional maybe 😭🙏, but this is just a head cannon.

[noosphe-re]

It may be remarked in passing that there is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the contexts in which he prefers to use certain words.

Owen Barfield, History in English Words

[pastelsailorr]

Donpatch and Beauty

[blackswaneuroparedux]

We were no mutual admiration society: praise for good work was unstinted, but censure for bad work – or even not-so-good work – was often brutally frank.

- Warren Lewis, soldier, historian, brother of C.S. Lewis and member of the Inkings

The name “Inklings” was first applied to an Oxford undergraduate student group Lewis and Tolkien attended as university professors. After the student leader graduated and the group disbanded, Lewis picked up the name for his informal sessions with his friends that initially began in his college rooms at Magdalen. 

Tolkien, Dyson, and Warren Lewis were regulars to the meetings. Included in the group were Lewis’s personal physician Robert “Humphrey” Havard, Owen Barfield, Nevill Coghill, Charles Williams, Lord David Cecil, Adam Fox, and others.

Lewis dedicated The Allegory of Love to Barfield, a lawyer and writer, with the inscription, the “wisest and best of my unofficial teachers.” The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is dedicated to Barfield’s daughter, Lucy.

The kinship Lewis felt with the Inklings, and Charles Williams especially, is evident in Lewis’s later writing on friendship in The Four Loves.

During the Inkling years, Lewis wrote his Space trilogy, beginning with Out of the Silent Planet, The Allegory of Love, The Screwtape Letters, A Preface to ‘Paradise Lost,’ The Abolition of Man, and The Great Divorce. Tolkien completed his stalled Lord of the Rings manuscripts because of the Inklings’ encouragement.

Many have noted the inspiration Lewis and Tolkien provided each other. A main character in Lewis’ Out of the Silent Planet is a linguistics professor, like Tolkien. The entrance to Tolkien’s Bag-End in The Hobbit is fashioned after Lewis’s home, The Kilns.

The Inklings were, first and foremost, friends.

While the evening sessions were reserved for reading manuscripts, the Inklings met for fun at The Eagle and Child pub, known affectionately around Oxford as The Bird and Baby. The pub’s small back room, cider, and colourful pub owner drew the group in once a week before lunch.

Behind these practical studies lay powerful, intertwined, and potentially contradictory beliefs: that language provides a key to the rational, scientific understanding of the world and that language is more than human speech, that it claims a divine origin and is the means by which God created the cosmos and Adam named the beasts. Both ideas strongly influenced the Inklings, whose leading members wrote many words about the meaning of words. For Owen Barfield, language is the fossil record of the history and evolution of human consciousness; for C. S. Lewis, it is a mundane tool that "exists to communicate whatever it can communicate" but also, as in his science fiction trilogy That Hideous Strength, an essential part of our metaphysical makeup for good or ill; for Charles Williams, language is power, a field of force for the magician, a vehicle of prayer for the believing Christian; for Tolkien, language is a fallen human instrument and a precious divine gift ("O felix peccatum Babel!" he exclaimed in his essay "English and Welsh"), a supreme art, and, as "Word", a name for God.

[we-are-ghosts-damnit]

DAD JASPER APPRECIATION POST

Jasper would be the sweetest dad.

period. no arguments. the way he treated barfield was fucking adorable and he just loved the little guy to death. jasper even put barfield in a little necktie in one clip!!!

dad jasper just,,,,makes me whole.

[womenwearingpearls]

Carrington A. Barfield - https://chaos-and-coffee.com/3-steps-to-achieving-the-perfect-top-knot-bun/

[gibsalad]

Garfield gets fixed: