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I found a recipe for Turkish delight, and immediately started quoting Narnia!

MLIN

I don't why I never shared this before. When I was a little girl (5 or 6) there was a family of Beavers living in my backyard. They would always come out after it rained and run around the yard. I would watch them from my brother's window and imagine what they were saying. This was before I knew about Narnia.

Came across this impassioned speech in Frankenstein, of all things:

"... Did you not call this a glorious expedition? And wherefore was it glorious? Not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea, but because it was full of dangers and terror; because at every new incident your fortitude was to be called forth and your courage exhibited, because danger and death surrounded it, and these you were to brave and overcome. For this was it a glorious, for this was it an honourable undertaking. You were hereafter to be hailed as the benefactors of your species, your names adored as belonging to brave men who encountered death for honour and the benefit of mankind. And now, behold, with the first imagination of danger, or, if you will, the first mighty and terrific trial of your courage, you shrink away and are content to be handed down as men who had not strength enough to endure cold and peril.... Oh! be men, or be more than men, Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. ... Return as heroes who have fought and conquered and who know not what it is to turn their backs on the foe."

Somewhere in the midst of the stirring of my own emotions, it brought to mind Reepicheep especially (he'd think it a fine speech) but Dawn Treader more broadly.
MLIN

Dr John MacArthur has done a character-study series on the twelve apostles, and his description of Thomas sounded familiar. In particular, in his analysis of John 11:16: Thomas says that the disciples ought to go to Judea with Jesus and "die with Him", which is indicates:
- decisive initiative on his part (taking a leadership position among them in this moment)
- the bravery of a pessimist (being sure that Jesus would die, and yet being willing to go himself anyway)
- and a declaration of love (through an attitude of "better to die with Him than to live without Him")

As soon as I heard that, I thought, "So he's Puddleglum."
Now I both understand Thomas better and appreciate Puddleglum a little more than I already had.

MLIN

Ariel.of.Narnia wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 24, 2015 4:27 am

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