Clive “Jack” Lewis (1898-1963) was born today, November 29, in Ireland. Lewis, wounded by shrapnel during World War I, eventually authored 30 books, taught literature at Cambridge University and befriended J.R.R Tolkien. You may know him best as C.S. Lewis (Clive Staple Lewis), the author of The Chronicles of Narnia fantasy series. (From childhood on, his friends and family called him “Jack.”) By the way, Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and been adapted into three motion pictures. Lewis once wrote, “Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become” (All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis, 1922-1927). And one of my favorites, “It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad” (from Mere Christianity). - Brian Bechtold
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 16:07:17 +0000
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