Another sunday afternoon for a good reading time. Still with C.S. Lewis book "An Experiment in Criticism". (EPUB version in Spanish)
I'm not into Poetry but I should learn about this and give a try.
„Weder der Wille noch die Vernunft ist ein Produkt der Natur. Daher bin ich entweder selbstexistent (ein Gedanke, den niemand akzeptieren kann) oder ich bin ein Abkömmling eines Denkens und Willens, die selbstexistent sind. Die Vernunft und Güte, die wir erreichen können, müssen von einer selbstexistenten Vernunft und Güte abstammen, also in der Tat von etwas Übernatürlichem“.
C.S. Lewis #CSLewis#Philosophie@philosophie
Past midnight right now. Time for a little reading before I sleep. That chapter looks so interesting: "How The Bad Reader Reads" from C.S. Lewis book: "An Experiment in Criticism". On the round! #reading#NowReading#Philosophy#Essay#CSLewis
#NowReading: An Experiment in Criticism (Spanish) from C.S. Lewis. One of my favorite writers since late 1990's
Why do we read and how we judge it? That's Lewis' work to explain the reason of the reading experience. Enjoying that ebook now ! #CSLewis#Reading#BooksWorthReading
A quote from C. S. Lewis: "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." #quote#cslewis
Sometimes C. S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia feature walking trees and other times feature dryads. As the two never interact with each other, it's unclear what their relationship is or if they're actually the same species. However, the art depicts them as very different. Possibly Narnian walking trees are shapeshifted dryads.
🎨 Pauline Baynes
"We tend to think about non-human intelligences in two distinct categories which we label 'scientific' and 'supernatural.' ... But the very moment we are compelled to recognize a creature in either class as real, the distinction begins to get blurred."
If you want to understand just why the current incarnation of capitalism is such a mess (allowing for the possibility that there could be a version that isn't such a mess, which is a topic for another day), I recommend two relatively short but packed books. These are:
Leisure: The Basis of Culture, by Joseph Pieper
The Abolition of Man, by CS Lewis
The first one argued that an over-emphasis on work leads directly to tyranny, and that leisure (properly understood) is key to freedom and democracy.
The second traces how (and explains why) the education system in the first world is geared towards turning people into cogs, not fulfilled human beings.
Both are philosophical, but in a practical, "ideas have consequences" sort of way.
I think a lot of people in this site will like them.
As a life-long fan of the Narnia Chronicles (and C. S. Lewis in general, misogyny and racism aside), it vexes me inordinately that all new editions of the Chronicles are published in chronological order, rather than in the order in which they were written (and were obviously intended to be read).
12/19/23 — Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open containers, please.
Table-top role-playing games, and entertaining books of knowledge, secrets, & pop-ups can entertain kids of many ages for the holidays, but... be cautious with the fancier books, to keep them in good order.
George MacDonald (1824–1905) was born #OTD, 10 Dec. Seen by many as the forefather of modern #fantasy fiction, he was a huge influence on later writers including JRR #Tolkien & #CSLewis
“The sheer imaginative force of LILITH makes nonsense of our everyday notions of ‘good writing’. MacDonald aims not to make us read, but to make us dream”
David Melville Wingrove on LILITH, MacDonald’s last – & very strange – major work