16. Aslan told Lucy that “every year you grow, you will find me bigger.” So when Lucy directly interacts with Aslan, that would look like some kind of visual glitch to the others, right? Like a clipping error or a broken link?
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17. If the Telmarines were originally descended from earthlings, what makes their claim to the Narnian throne any less legitimate than the Pevensies’?
jul 10, 2025, 11:36 pm • 0 0 • view
18. Does this mean what I think it means about Eustace’s parents’ religion? The first three are true of me but I’ve never been religious enough to affect my underoos.
jul 10, 2025, 11:53 pm • 0 0 • view
That could be a Mormanism reference... all the temperance, plus magic underoos? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_...
jul 11, 2025, 12:08 am • 5 0 • view
That’s exactly what I was thinking too!
jul 11, 2025, 12:17 am • 2 0 • view
I don't think the Mormons have ever been particularly vegetarian. Also, I suspect they were very little known in England in 1950s. I wouldn't be surprised if Lewis had heard of them, but I doubt most of his readers in England would have.
jul 12, 2025, 11:35 am • 1 0 • view
I guess too that Eustace is described as going to a school that is unusually lax, and overly progressive and this wouldn't be a likely choice for a fictional Mormon family.
jul 12, 2025, 11:45 am • 1 0 • view
I was thinking about that as I read more. Especially since it doesn’t really jive with how Arthur Conan Doyle described Mormonism in The Sign of Four, which is my understanding of the British understanding of LDS!
jul 12, 2025, 6:45 pm • 1 0 • view
I had no idea that they appeared in Sherlock Holmes. Are you sure? In 1890 there were only 188k Mormons in the whole world.
jul 12, 2025, 6:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Oops, it was A Study in Scarlet. It surprised me too! I think it’s considered one of Doyle’s weakest because it doesn’t play fair. There’s really no way for the reader to solve the mystery themself.
jul 12, 2025, 8:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Amazing! I'm not sure I've read that one. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Study...
jul 12, 2025, 8:43 pm • 1 0 • view
19. It seems like many of Aslan’s actions are not altruistic but conditional or transactional. Could one perhaps argue that Aslan is a vehicle for inculcating children with a capitalist deity?
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20. If earthlings can just get teleported right onto a moving ship in Narnia, how many human beings on Earth have died by randomly getting blinked into the middle of The Great Eastern Ocean?
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21. If Duke Bern bought King Caspian before they retook the Lone Islands, what’s to stop the duke from turning around and reinstating slavery?
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22. With the amount of inanimate objects imbued with mystical powers, could one argue that Narnia is more animist than Christian?
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23. Why did Aslan save Eustace but not Lord Octesian? It seems like deities are never very fair, despite beginning with DEI.
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24. Who was Lord Octesian’s father, Lord Septesian or Lord Heptesian?
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25. Am I mistaken, or does it seem like heather’s natural habitat is far larger in Narnia?
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26. Why did the boys leave Lucy to explore the upper floor of Coriakin’s house by herself? All they knew was that there was a magician up there who was invisible and probably inimical.
jul 15, 2025, 2:53 am • 0 0 • view
oh many that first line though, pretty sick burn lmao
jul 11, 2025, 1:37 am • 2 0 • view
One of my favorite first sentences in literature!
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