#cs lewis

[second-place-trophy-wife]

Matt Mercer is the Tolkein to Brennan's CS Lewis

They are both great friends. And Mercer does an incredible job with lore building and world building, figuring out the details of history and customs and religion and how the people all interact and if this trade route here crosses that continent there, what does that mean for the Arakokra of these cliffs?

And Brennan bursts in with "I have STRONG FEELINGS about morality and the shape of the worlds I make will be conduits for those feelings, history be damned! Talking Lion? Absolutely. Strange puppet man, we don't know how real they are? Perfect. And let's get some Quangles going just for the hell of it"

[anti-rop]

there’s still time to not release this.

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[bodhrancomedy]

In King Lear (III:vii) there is a man who is such a minor character that Shakespeare has not given him even a name: he is merely 'First Servant'. All the characters around him – Regan, Cornwall, and Edmund – have fine, long term plans. They think they know how the story is going to end, and they are quite wrong. The servant has no such delusions. He has no notion how the play is going to go. But he understands the present scene. He sees an abomination (the blinding of old Gloucester) taking place. He will not stand it. His sword is out and pointed as his master’s breast in a moment: then Regan stabs him dead from behind. That is his whole part: eight lines all told. But if it were real life and not a play, that is the part it would be best to have acted.

- CS Lewis on King Lear.

[princebuffovt]

[shieldmaidenofsherwood]

CS Lewis when he's got one page left to wrap up his book.

[adaptationsdaily]

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN dir. Andrew Adamson (2008)

[free-my-mindd]

C.S. Lewis, just keep going

[girl-mercury]

'Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose.' 'Don’t put your goods in a leaky vessel.' 'Don’t spend too much on a house you may be turned out of.' There is no man alive who responds more naturally than I to such canny maxims.

I am a safety-first creature. Of all arguments against love none makes so strong an appeal to my nature as “Careful! This might lead you to suffering”.

There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.

But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

-CS Lewis, A Grief Observed

(Glen Martin Taylor, “but i am safe in here”)