My favorite is at the end of chapter 14 in Perelandra when Ransom is battling the Un-man for the last time. 🌋

"Get out of my brain. It isn't yours," - Dr. Elwin Ransom

I get that running through my head sometimes. 😁

I recently came cross this article by a young philosopher and science fiction fan that breaks down Lewis' categories of science fiction. I thought the folks here would enjoy it.

C.S. Lewis's 6 Sub-Species of Science Fiction

I remember reading a piece by CS Lewis, I think a letter he wrote to some lady, where he writes a short paragraph about how people have different "glands" (which i think he understood as hormone producing organs that affect mood) and that what might be very stressful (I don't think he used this word, but I am summarizing with a poor memory) for one person might be easy to deal with for another, simply because of the difference in their "glands."

Basically, Lewis noted that people's differing hormonal balances and resulting differences of psychology meant that what was easy or mild for one person might be very distressing for another.

Anyone remember this and know where it was from?

NotebookLM generates audio in the form of dialogue. I wondered if these quasi-podcasts could promote values aligned with Lewis', The Abolition of Man, my favorite of his books. Some LLMs have trouble with anything old-fashioned, and will caveat for eternity. With some guidance to the "hosts," and some quick overlaying with a favorite video editor, this was made:

https://youtu.be/OL1IvTXDhiE

I've found that the more out of sync the words are with the modern zeitgeist, the more quirks in vocalization can be heard. Thought Lewis fans might enjoy.

I always remember it because he died the same day as JFK and Aldous Huxley.

Not bad given the limited prompt that was given:

https://suno.com/song/f23c784f-17d2-47ab-a85c-f029f10a160b

I’m okay with sort of open endings, but I really wish there was something that went into Mark and Jane’s child(ren?) and what they were meant to do. The book felt like it came to an end so quickly.

I found this at an old bookstore. I had never collected old books. I thought it was a neat find.

I was thrilled to see that the Space Trilogy was coming out as a full-cast BBC production onMarch 27th! As a lover of this sometimes hard to find collection, this blew my mind.

Also a little tip that may help a few friends. Right now Audible is doing a $0.99 for three month promo, so I pre-ordered the collection for my permanent library for a $1.

I’m not promoting Audible, but sometimes you got to share a good deal with your peeps. Hopefully you are as exited as me to experience Ransom’s adventures again!

source: tomatobirdart

I wonder if the cult of Ungit and the God of the Mountain was inspired by Elagabal (Ilaha Jabal), another mountain God that took the form of a stone. The Glome culture is very interesting in this book. It seems to be inspired by the Ancient Levant, is distinctively non-Greek, exists in a time with writing, and seems to be a minor yet prominent kingdom when Orual takes command. The mix of the concrete descriptions of experience of the landscape vs the ambiguity of time and setting is part of the allure of this book.

For any stories by cs lewis. Are there any audiobook version that reads each character's lines in different voices? As if it was like theatre?

Thank you

What I mean is, we only get to see Earth, Venus, and Mars. What about Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, ect...?

Do you have any ideas for what might be living on them if Ransom visited?

And yes, if I'm missing something in the books that says they are uninhabited, please mention it.🙂

AI ; )

I tried searching for it but I couldn't find it -- I know I've found it online before just I can't remember the name of the mother chatacter. I would really appreciate if anyone familiar with Lewis could facilitate.

I always found this to be a very cool concept __ lands that float on the water. They are like giant sea mats basically, with soil on them and plants. This is the kind of stuff that makes me geeky. 🤓

My attempt at getting the AI to draw it ; )

can anyone please explain: "you , Weston, were not here when i unmade the dead hrossa whom you killed etc. (last 20 lines of the chapter)

why would CS Lewis have chosen to name God Maleldil given that the prefix "mal" means evil ?

Similar to another post from a few months back, looking for artist/prints of the 70s Macmillan printings of the Space Trilogy. Any leads would be greatly appreciated.

For the podcast that I run, we started reading C.S. Lewis' "Mere Christianity". In it, he develops a rational argument for christian belief. A major portion of his opening argument states that morality is universally understood - suggesting that all people around the world, regardless of culture, have essentially the same notions of 'right' and 'wrong'. He goes on to argue that this can be seen in the morality of selflessness - suggesting that an ethic of selflessness is universal.

I would go so far as to say that a sense of morality is universal - but I am not sure if the suggestion that all people have the same morality, more or less, is defensible. Further, I completely disagree on the selfishness point. I would argue that a morality of selflessness is certainly not universal (look to any libertarian or objectivist philosophy).

What do you think?

I know that some people say the idea of a Law of Nature or decent behaviour known to all men is unsound, because different civilisations and different ages have had quite different moralities.

But this is not true. There have been differences between their moralities, but these have never amounted to anything like a total difference. If anyone will take the trouble to compare the moral teaching of, say, the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Hindus, Chinese, Greeks and Romans, what will really strike him will be how very like they are to each other and to our own. Some of the evidence for this I have put together in the appendix of another book called The Abolition of Man; but for our present purpose I need only ask the reader to think what a totally different morality would mean. Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all the people who had been kindest to him. You might just as well try to imagine a country where two and two made five. Men have differed as regards what people you ought to be unselfish to—whether it was only your own family, or your fellow countrymen, or every one. But they have always agreed that you ought not to put yourself first. Selfishness has never been admired. Men have differed as to whether you should have one wife or four. But they have always agreed that you must not simply have any woman you liked. (Lewis, Mere Christianity)

If you are interested, here are links to the episode:
Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pdamx-30-1-the-lion-the-witch-and-the-christian/id1691736489?i=1000670896154

Youtube - https://youtu.be/hIWj-lk2lpk?si=PaiZbHuHnlMompmN

Looking for a quote - I thought it was CS Lewis, but am not 100% sure now.

It is something related to using one’s will to decide to do something and one’s feelings eventually following the will “whimpering along behind.”

Does that sound at all familiar?

I'm trying to find the book or essay where C.S Lewis talks about the tree of Life and the tree of knowledge of Good and evil.

In the writing, he compares, choosing the tree of knowledge of Good and evil is a form of being in self-control. Or control of your own environments. And the contrast, choosing a tree of life is choosing more dependence on God.

Any help or direction is certainly appreciated

English is no my first language, I am really stuck on this part. I don’t understand what it means or what it is saying.

This title is a compilation of

• The Weight of Glory

• God in the Dock
• Christian Reflections
• On Stories
• Present Concerns
• The World’s Last Night

The kindle edition is on sale at Amazon for $3.99 in the US for an unknown amount of time.