Lewis Lectures - Silver Chair by CS Lewis

[@Tarotlynx]

Puddleglum was always once of my favorite characters. And I love that he was the one who defeated her spell.

[@fettfan91]

One of my favorite books by CS Lewis, great analysis!

[@RJKYEG]

Jeremy Northam reads The Silver Chair in the version I have on Audible, his voice acting of Puddleglum is the definitive performance, just grave and hilarious.

[@elizabethtassonecuprunneth7882]

Is there the part two?? I want to hear the rest

[@majodkajavs6977]

Great análisis

[@michaelowens5394]

Great spélleng

[@KateGladstone]

As timestamp 2:12, the speaker says that the signs which needs to be memorized must be “instinctively bred into the bone.” Yet to be “instinctive” (according to the meaning of that word) the would have had to be acquired by sheer inheritance, not by learning and forming a reflex. Therefore, if we accepted the speaker’s claim that “instinct” was here demanded, we would be saying that it would have been useless for Jill to acquire the signs by training them through repetition (although this is precisely what Asian tells her to do) to Allan wanted Jill to bring the signs down deep inside her to the level of a reflex (to internalize them, as the speaker says earlier), yet 5he speaker demands MORE than Allan ever did: the speaker, by using the word “instinctive,” workday demand of Jill that the signs should have been inborn in her DNA: an impossibility, since the speaker does not have the power of Aslan, and Aslan in any case (though presumably having such a power) did not use it upon Jill. I am deeply disappointed (and, yes, angry) that this otherwise able and engaging speaker has verbally muddied the issue, almost at the outset, by confusing “relfex” with “instinct” (thus leading his audience to confuse them, too).

[@KateGladstone]

As timestamp 2:12, the tspeaker says that the signs which needs to be memorized must be “instinctively bred into the bone.” Yet to be “instinctive” (according to the meaning of that word) the would have had to be acquired by sheer inheritance, not by learning and forming a reflex. Therefore, if we accepted the speaker’s claim that “instinct” was here demanded, we would be saying that it would have been useless for Jill to acquire the signs by training them through repetition (although this is precisely what Asian tells her to do) to Allan wanted Jill to bring the signs down deep inside her to the level of a reflex (to internalize them, as the speaker says earlier), yet 5he speaker demands MORE than Allan ever did: the speaker, by using the word “instinctive,” workday demand of Jill that the signs should have been inborn in her DNA: an impossibility, since the speaker does not have the power of Aslan, and Aslan in any case (though presumably having such a power) did not use it upon Jill. I am deeply disappointed (and, yes, angry) that this otherwise able and engaging speaker has muddled the issue, almost at the outset, by confusing “relfex” with “instinct.”

[@thundergrace]

Salvation by grace... sanctification by grace

[@thistledownz.2982]

what is it?

[@justinchamberlain3443]

That’s nonsense. Lewis wasn’t a Calvinist phil2:12

[@michaelowens5394]

The time of being enchanted is not the time to develop a habit. You can't develop the habit when you're called upon to use it. It's too late then.

[@thistledownz.2982]

As a Catholic, I love that there are fours signs...

[@eliotreader8220]

so Aslan wanted to help Jill and Eustace build their personality going forward

[@argentivulpes2813]

Maying... celebration of Beltane, a Pagan Holy-day

[@michaelowens5394]

I've always wanted to ask... If the ones celebrating a holiday are not pagan, and the things they are celebrating are not pagan, in what sense is it a pagan holiday?

[@thistledownz.2982]

ah er, sanctification is still working (works) out our salvation.

[@Tarotlynx]

Getting to Heaven without dying? Experiment School as purgatory. Interesting premise. Then both fall from Heaven, Jill for showing off. She could have been Satan if she didn't grow and develop, couldn't she?