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Go read this...
http://dduane.livejournal.com/158364.html

(And Faye? *This* is why you want to give C S Lewis a second look)

Date: 2008-10-04 01:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fayanora.livejournal.com
Yes, I know I should give C.S. Lewis a second look. Lilla loves his work, and I trust her word. And I have a long history of eventually breaking through my biases and reforming opinions. My mind is open. But in this case, my heart is not. I still can't get over the fact that someone essentially used one of his books as a weapon against me. It was in the figurative sense, but it was still an attack. I still have a strong emotional reaction to Lewis's name, no matter what my intellect says. Because someone I liked, someone I thought I knew, someone I trusted and admired emotionally and intellectually attacked me with one of his books. It's like being stabbed with a piece of art. Intellectually, one cannot fault the artist if the artist never intended it to be used that way. But emotionally, I get a visceral reaction to C.S. Lewis and especially to the book "Mere Christianity," which was the "weapon."

So in short, I'm still not ready yet to give his work another chance.

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