#others on lewis

[lewisiana]

Pregnant Mouse

A student describes his first 'brush' with C.S. Lewis -

So anxious was I not to be late for our first meeting that I turned up one week early and found (fortunately) that he was not present. But the journey was not entirely wasted, for I learned something strange about him in the course of a chat with a cleaner whom I met at his door. She told me with much rolling of the eyes that he had forbidden her to set a trap for a mouse she had spied in his rooms, his reason being that the creature, which he had been observing himself, was pregnant. -Tom McAlindon

Lewis once wrote to a child fan who had sent him drawings of Reepicheep -

I love real mice. There are lots in my rooms at College but I have never set a trap. When I sit up late working they poke their heads out from behind the curtains just as if they were saying, 'Hi! Time for you to go to bed. We want to come out and play.'

[wintergreenoreo]

Drivers as animals headcanons presented by plushies with hats:

RedBull Ferrari

Mclaren Mercedes

Aston Martin Alpine

Haas Williams

VCARB Sauber

[mo-mode]

Daddy Bearman: Hi, I’m Ollie’s dad. My son is racing for Ferrari—

Charles, Lewis, Max, Seb, Carlos, Entire Ferrari Team, Literally Every Other Driver:

[kesterdbihown]

Versus

Nabbed the screenshot from twitter but tale as old as time I'm not saying it's rooted in certain something, I'm saying it's rooted IN certain something.

Go on YouTube and see any Kimi Räikkönen radio compilation where he's verbally abusing his engineer the constant "shut the fuck up" you'll see people slobbering all over him saying how he's the true racer lol.

all I'm saying is in everything in this world if you have any skin colour other than white you can't even breathe wrong without people labelling you anything but child of god.

Other drivers fans complain teamlh only talk about racism but when stuff like this happens what are we supposed to do. The agenda media and other personalities have against lh what is it because it awfully looks like racism to me.

P.S. That brother was saying please after every sentence too explosive radio my ass 😭😭

[danicloth]

The bad guys)? 💥

I wasn't going to post this doodle but in the end it made me laugh a lot 😂…

(And yes, I do believe that Lewis is an antagonist -w-)

[f1issmy1d]

thinking about this 🤭

[soineffablygay]

brocedes in 1998, 2006, 2016, 2024

[librafleur]

[brittany-and-lewis]

i miss f1 for two reasons

i miss the thrill and the narratives and the stories and history being written with every race

but i also miss watching two men in a homoerotic friendship try to act normal about each other-

[countingstars-17]

GPDA Statement regarding "Drivers Misconduct"

[lewisiana]

Merry as a Cricket

Thanks for your good wishes on my marriage. It is as good as the first one was bad.

With Bill I lived in perpetual anxiety; if it wasn’t women it was drink, and if it wasn’t drink it was bad temper and smashed crockery and public scenes, and always it was money; just getting him out of bed in the morning and coaxing him to do a little work meant three hours’ exacting work for me!

With Jack the only problem is to keep him from working too hard and sacrificing himself to all the rest of us. He is really a saint, and that’s not a word I use lightly.

In addition, he’s got ten times Bill’s charm and brains and talent and wit, and he’s as merry as a cricket—and, as you can see, I’m overwhelmingly in love with him!

-Lewis' wife Joy writes to her cousin, May 1958

[tommowluvr]

so that's what they were planning in that giant helmet 😭😭

[firthbetterorfirthworse]

Welcome to the Darcy auditions, please give us your best impression of a disgruntled penguin

Thank you, we'll be in touch

[tavolgisvist]

'I look in the mirror'

At the Cavern, 1963, photo by Michael Ward

Photo by Mike McCartney

August 13, 1966, photo by Bob Bonis

We wrote with two guitars, John and I. And, as I’ve mentioned previously, the joy of that was that I was left-handed while he was right handed, so I was looking in a mirror and he was looking in a mirror. We would always tune up, have a ciggie, drink a cup of tea, start playing some stuff, look for an idea. Normally, one or the other of us would arrive with a fragment of a song. ‘Please Please Me’ was a John idea. John liked the double meaning of ‘please’. Yeah, ‘please’ is, you know, pretty please. ‘Please have intercourse with me. So, pretty please, have intercourse with me, I beg you to have intercourse with me.’ He liked that, and I liked that he liked that. This was the kind of thing we’d see in each other, the kind of thing in which we were matched up. We were in sync.

(Paul McCartney, about Please Please Me in The Lyrics, 2021)

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A lot of what we had going for us was that we were both good at noticing the stuff that just pops up, and grabbing it. And the other thing is that John and I had each other. If he was sort of stuck for a line, I could finish it. If I was stuck for somewhere to go, he could make a suggestion. We could suggest the way out of the maze to each other, which was a very handy thing to have. We inspired each other.

(Paul McCartney, about Eight Days A Week in The Lyrics, 2021)

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When John and I met, the first year of our friendship was spent talking about these cover versions, the records we loved, and then playing them again and again. As we got to know each other, we practised these various covers until one day the conversation went, ‘You know, I’ve written one or two songs.’ And he said, ‘Yeah, so have I.’ That gave us something in common that was itself wholly uncommon. I went to a school of a thousand boys and I’d never met anyone who said he’d written a song. Mine were just in my head. So were John’s. We took each other by surprise. And then the logical extension was, ‘Well, maybe we could write one together.’ So that’s how we started. And we became versions of each other.

(Paul McCartney, about The Other Me in The Lyrics, 2021)

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Q: "Can I ask you about Lewis Carroll?" A: "Oh, Lewis Carroll. I always admit to that because I love 'Alice In Wonderland' and 'Alice Through The Looking Glass.' But I didn't even know he'd written anything else. I was that ignorant. I just happened to get those for birthday presents as a child and liked them. And I usually read those two about once a year, because I still like them."

(John Lennon, June 16, 1965, interview for BBC)

Paul McCartney in his garden at Cavendish Avenue, 7; photo by Barry Lategan (for Observer 'What Makes A Man Stylish?', July 1968)

I think of the imagined world of Lewis Carroll [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There] that John and I both loved so much.

(Paul McCartney, about I’ll Get You in The Lyrics, 2021)

We’d been together so much that if you had a question, we would both pretty much come up with the same answer. [about their hitchhike to Spain by way of Paris] <…> It’s a bit crude, but it’s fair to say that, in general, I’d had a good life and John hadn’t. His life had been tougher, and he had to develop a harder shell than I did. He was quite a cynical guy but, as they say, with a heart of gold. A big softy, but his shield was hard. So that was very good for the two of us. Opposites attract. I could calm him down, and he could fire me up. We could see things in each other that the other needed to be complete.

(Paul McCartney about Ticket To Ride in The Lyrics, 2021)

Sometimes I look in the mirror Is nobody there? But I just keep on staring and staring No Can it be? Can it be? Can it be? And if I look in the mirror And nobody´s there But I just keep on staring, and staring No Is it me? Is it me? Is it me?

(John Lennon, circa 1977)

+ this

[cuthechicane]

um did no one clip this? new 2016 silver war lore from nico himself?? brocedes the gift that never stops giving 😭

(tl;dw: lewis got nico sent to the stewards to review whether nico's pole lap was legal as the last few corners were completed under yellow flags)

[glenpowelljr]