You know how some days you just read along with not much of an impact, noting details that support what you’ve seen before or that bring up questions, but nothing very significant? I’ve had a few of those recently. To be honest, it’s been a bit of a struggle to work on Perelandra much at […]
I’ve been away from the blog for quite some time, unexpectedly, but with very good reason. I’m pregnant! I had really bad ‘morning’ sickness for several weeks, so bad that lots of days I could barely get out of bed. I’m finally feeling better, and finally getting the house back in order. (With a huge […]
I found something exciting – at least to my weird self! I’ve been re-reading Perelandra, and I keep getting interrupted (thanks to everybody being home all the time) and re-reading the same section over and over. Granted, it’s slightly irritating, but it has brought into focus something I’ve been puzzling about for some time but […]
This year is certainly turning into a season of unexpected interruptions! I had planned to take the month of March to do a great purge in my house, trying to make everything go a bit more smoothly with less stuff for my kids to leave lying around – or for me to have to dig […]
Well, I finally got a definitive answer. Some time ago I sent an article out for publication. After quite some time the journal requested that I revise and resubmit. I revised according to specifications and last week I finally learned they’ve decided against publishing it. Though I am somewhat disappointed, it is in some ways […]
I’ve been working through Lewis’s letters for a loooong time, with many side forays into books I discovered about Lewis, or that influenced him, and catching up on his essays in order up to the time period I’m reading about in the letters. I’m currently in August, 1940 – after Out of the Silent Planet […]
Nothing is merely a by-product of anything else. All results are intended from the first. What is subservient from one point of view is the main purpose from another. No thing or event is first or highest in a sense which forbids it to be also last and lowest. The partner who bows to Man […]
As I’m reading Paradise Lost and thinking about its relation to the Ransom Trilogy, one thing I’ve been struck by is that Milton puts Eve clearly in submission to Adam from the beginning, before the fall. Here’s part of the initial introduction to the pair. Though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seem’d; […]
Hang on to your hats for this one, folks! It’s a bit of a wild ride. And, please, if you’re not already familiar with my ideas, please read something else first! Good places to start would be With Hands Open, Something Like a Spear and Hands Open, or Musings on the Trilogy Theme. Maybe even […]
I don’t even know where to start! I finished Lewis’s Preface to Paradise Lost a couple of days ago – and started in on the poem/book – and I am amazed. Why, oh, why didn’t the people I asked about what to read to help in my analysis of Perelandra tell me to read this […]