Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Tolkien and Lewis

Another anecdote regarding C.S. Lewis:
From a letter to Christopher Tolkien

1 March 1944

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Lewis is as energetic and jolly as ever, but getting too much publicity for his or any of our tastes. 'Peterborough', usually fairly reasonable, did him the doubtful honour of a peculiarly misrepresentative and asinine paragraph in the Daily Telegraph of Tuesday last. It began 'Ascetic Mr. Lewis'-----!!! I ask you! He put away three pints in a very short session we had this morning, and said he was 'going short for Lent'. I suppose all the stuff you see in print is about as accurate about Tom, Dick, or Harry. * * *
Stuart Buck

1 Comments:

Blogger Gideon Strauss said...

Now THAT is an asceticism I can join.

4:19 PM  

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