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#107 Dr Sharon Jones: Floral particulars in CS Lewis
The C.S. Lewis podcast
Surprised by Joy by Lewis
As I read Lewis's work, I started to see flowers again and again. Ward's highly systematic analysis found a clear predilection for intricacy in Lewis's creation of Narnia. It is interesting to note that Marcel Proust also wrote of a flowering current bush among many other plants in his treatment of the memories of youth. The experience Lewis called joy had a lot to do with memory. For Lewis, books about Celtic mythology were particularly green, leafy, amorous, and elusive. With so much literary and natural beauty, he was, he said, sick with desire.
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