The Great, Pagan C.S. Lewis.

The short answer is that you can get the same stew with or without putting in salt -- salt fills the mouth but not the belly.


My mother grew up on the C.S. Lewis versions with the full, greek god interactions within the books -- not all that different a word count but having them out is like removing the salt from stew. Maybe even the salt from a yeast bread recipe. C.S. Lewis as written was not anything all that acceptable to Evangelicals, and quite acceptable to my family -- with our contented atheist core.

If the upcoming film is based on the spirit of the original books it should be one magnificent mindride.

If you all can get a copy of an older version, either American or British,you are in for a real treat IMHO. The version before the nuns cleaned up the 'scary' parts.

The Scholastic version is like a great beef stew without salt, which is what I've learned to expect from textbookised reading anyhow. Bowdlerised, sanitised classics might be better for you (though I doubt it) but in reading them you cannot shake the feeling that you are somehow missing the whole point.

C.S. Lewis -- I love you. I love you like salt.

JulieB