The Magician’s Nephew
by C.S. Lewis
I know I read the book before when I read it to my son when he was small, but with me having a short memory and all, I couldn’t remember the story at all.
What I do remember is that I wasn’t really captured by the story nor could I identify with it.
But it’s different this time, very different.
Louis Markos wrote in his book Lewis Agonistes that those “who read the Chronicles as a child solely for their stories, and then read them again as an adult [is] to be stunned into wonder by their deeper Christian message, a message made all the more real because it had already been experienced in childhood in a purely aesthetic way.”
Sadly, I have not read the Chronicles when I was young. I didn’t know about the books back then.
But now that I am reading it, I am seeing the deeper meaning it holds.
And whilst I am rarely moved to tears, this one did me.
I don’t think I can put any quotes here. I will not do it justice. You will have to read it and experience it for yourself, truly.
pearlie
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