#the magician’s newphew

[divinecomedyproductions]

Kinda funny when snobs consider your work or what you enjoy a bad because its only enjoyed by a smaller audience which then they pride themselves on they liking something thats enjoyed by the masses "it speaks to the human condition"

Then if you like something thats resonates by a larger audience, they flip it to "enjoyed by the unwashed masses" which then these prigs boast like something thats niche its because "we enlightened few understand something deeper and higher."

When it was the reverse logic 5 minutes ago

Cliche, niche, broad, what makes money, and tampering around with concepts in dissent and distaste is "bad" unless "the right people" like it and get what *they* want

These people resort to nothing buttery and labeling to stuff they dislike and we gotta take their word for it 

While the likes of us gotta justify what we like and want by bending over backwards, jump through hoops, and do jumping jacks and somersaults

And they might dismiss it anyway as “subjective feelings” and “unsubstantial” which once again, they don’t elaborate and we just gotta take their word, and we’re supposed to abide to their nebulous measures of what is “objectively well written”

Reminds me how Jesus describes the Pharisees in Matthew 23: 4

“They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.”

This is why I'm so skeptical of people who talk about being "objective" when it comes to these things, because their logic is fluid and conforms to whatever make their way right and everyone else's wrong. Even when they end up contradicting themselves.

Like Andrew Ketterley from The Magician’s Nephew, they’re a bunch of peddling magicians who think because they themselves are "objective" by default because they "know objective things" they don't need to follow the rules like everyone else because everything they do is “perfectly rooted in objective reality”, they alone are “objective” and everyone else is “subjective” and therefor “subject(ed)” to their “objective” will

When “Objective” mean things that apply to *everybody*

Its like Gnosticism,

They (G)now, with a “G” and you don’t, so its different when its them

[lucy-pevensies]

"It was the quietest wood you could possibly imagine. There were no birds, no insects, no animals, and no wind. You could almost feel the trees growing. The pool he had just got out of was not the only pool. There were dozens of others—a pool every few yards as far as his eyes could reach. You could almost feel the trees drinking the water up with their roots. This wood was very much alive. When he tried to describe it afterward Digory always said, 'It was a rich place: as rich as plum cake.'"

The Magician's Nephew // The Wood Between the Worlds

[yesireadforfun]

This is a story about something that happened long ago when your grandfather was a child.

The Magician’s Nephew

[bobasheebaby]

Kiddo and I finished Harry Potter last night 😢

We will be starting Chronicals of Narnia tonight.

Should we start with The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe or The Magician's Nephew?

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was the first book writer but according to chronological order you should start with The Magician's Nephew.

Who has read them all, what do you think?

[customarycreate]

The Magician’s Nephew Part 1

Okay, so my parents were kind enough to let me have the Narnia books before Easter (Yay) and I just started reading the first book. 

First thing I noticed is how much I already like Polly Plummer. 

She just seems brave and very thoughtful, I don’t know those are just my first impressions.

[dailycozydreaming]

saturday 07.03.20: book review 📖📖📖📖📖📖📖

the magicians newphew by C.S. Lewis 🧙🏻‍♂️🧙🏻‍♂️🧙🏻‍♂️🧙🏻‍♂️🧙🏻‍♂️

two children find themselves caught up a scheming magicians experiment. magic rings bring them to a new world where they wake a witch and accidentally bring her home. to save their world from her terrible reign they must use their rings again. as they arrive in yet a new world diggory and polly meet aslan. and narnia is born.

this is such a cute start to this series, meeting aslan and seeing the true beginnings of this magical world. i loved the little detail of the iconic lamp post and it’s origins. the religious touch is actually done quite nicely, not overpowering or fanatical. if you are a fan of “the lion witch and wardrobe” then prequel is for you.

[bookpillows]

Do you have any book recs?

Yes..

Banana Yoshimoto’s Kitcken

Hauki Murakami’s After Dark, 1Q84, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Sputnik Sweetheart and Norwegian Wood

Richard Hofstadter’s Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Pablo Neruda’s Captain’s Verses

Kristen Renwick Monroe’s Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide: Identity and Moral Choice

Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s Hell Screen

Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s The Shadow of the Wind

Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

C.S. Lewis’s The Magician’s Newphew

To Outwit God is an interview with Marek Edelman, one of the surviving leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising

The Letters of Abelard and Heloise

The Play of Adam

Therigatha: Poems of the First Buddhist Women

[divinecomedyproductions]

Looking back to Narnia as inspiration for my AUs

And I love this couple so much, a humble cabby and his beautiful and cute wife, sweet and honest and Aslan is just like

“You know what’s important, your good people, you will be king and queen of Narnia…”

Aslan, who we know was Jesus Christ, Tge Son of God takes them out the hell-hole modern day London and puts them were their happy, where they can be what they are meant to be, what they want to be

That’s the good stuff, things are put in their proper places and all the pretentious convoluted suffocating reason and logic and all the other gibberish and jargon is booted out by Aslan and things are just set right