Some of the guys who discuss CSL here actually have children:
S8E30 – Narnia – "Narnia in the 60s and 70s", After Hours with Dr. Christin Ditchfield-Lazo
Pints with Jack | 4 June 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8b_8NL__uI
10:11 The professor telling the story?
I've seconded that in my Susan Fic. You know the "I narrator" that now and then says things like "Lucy later told me ..."
In my Susan Fic, the narrator is NOT CSL, but Digory Kirk. CSL inherited his papers, Susan Pevensie signed a waver making CSL entitled to publish those papers as novels, and while MN to SC are based on those papers, Susan in parallel has true dreams about Rilian and about Tirian with her archery student Jill and her cousin Eustace ... and in prayer intercedes for them.
Through the publication of SC, she gets the assurance that her dreams were true dreams, and so, LB is based on her other true dreams.
I think this is the only possible "epistemology of Narnia" (and chapters that are in Aslan's Country are as accessed through dream parallelled in Dante and in Pearl ... the poem in the Sir Gawaine school or even by the Sir Gawaine poet).
That precious pearl without a spot ...
23:17 To answer the question, when I was small, I was born in 1968, I recall no one using the word Holocaust up to a certain TV Series by Lanzmann.
When Jews in dreadful camps reminiscent of Wyvern College for some of the younger were evoked, and some presumed death implements too, one was always speaking of Concentration Camps.
Not Holocaust.
42:20 Did the adapters have connection to South Germans?
In Bavaria and Austria, it's Child Jesus who comes with the presents.
51:45 Hunting of the White Stag indeed has a wonderful music, it takes on again after the conversation with the professor, and he has a likeable voice.
Hmmm Michael John Lewis from Aberystwth, could he be a distant relative of that other Lewis who crossed the Irish channel and who became paternal grandfather to Jack?
The Lewises were ascendancy and more precisely of Welsh origin.
52:08 That secrecy clause is actually one of my theological hangups about the Narniad.
Having been to Narnia kind of becomes equivalent to a Masonic initiation.
When Susan becomes Catholic, this past will give her trouble going to confession. Have a look at how real seers were instructed by Our Lady Herself, they went straight to the priest, they keep nothing secret for more than a day or some hours (a few girls in Île Bouchard were sneaking into Church in spite of the parish priest ... who became convinced when one of them who had heavy glasses and cleaned her eyes in hot water every morning was healed. It also convinced her up to then working class and Atheist father. 1947. The object of the vision was to make them pray for France being saved.
And of course things like "I have lied and made my sister who was in the same situation look bad, after we had been to Narnia" is a thing that has to be told in confession. It's as far as I can see a mortal sin. In my fan fic, apart from not being definitely plain, Susan gets a lot of the Orual role.
And obviously, a vision that has been treated with so much tergiversation since the childhood absolutely cannot be recognised by the Church, especially not after CSL does some theologically questionable changes ....
That might actually be the solution to other theological hangups. When Jesus in the Apocalypse appears as a lamb, this does not constitute a parallel incarnation. That would be my theological go to when it comes to justifying the fan fic. However, that means Aslan's words to Bree cannot be original ....
55:19 Speaking of the BBC adaptation, have you seen that "behind the scenes" clip in which the BBC personnel absolutely make it clear to everyone (with Sophie Wilcox in on it) that they didn't believe in Narnia, in tones somewhat Atheist about the model for the Lewis novels too, to my ear ...?
That could explain why BBC never did HHB, MN, and obviously LB.
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