Monthly Archives: June 2017

C.S. Lewis’ Amazing Connections with Canada: A Canada Day Friday Feature Visit to the Vault

Posted on June 30, 2017 by

Tomorrow is Canada Day here in the Great White North. Canada Day is, unsurprisingly, celebrated in Canada, and by the millions of Canadians hidden secretly among the peoples of the world, waiting until the signal to rise up and overthrow … Continue reading →

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When Sam Gamgee Wrote to J.R.R. Tolkien

Posted on June 29, 2017 by

As far as I know, no one named Puddleglum or any Pevensie has ever written to C.S. Lewis. Has anyone named Ged or Arha ever written to Ursula K. Le Guin, if there is anyone with those names? Among the various Potter … Continue reading →

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The House that Sharpe Built: “The Slip” by Mark Sampson

Posted on June 27, 2017 by

In some ways, it is all the fault of a lapel pin. That’s when it all began to fall apart for Dr. Philip Sharpe, Professor of philosophy at Canada’s most prestigious university and the author of a number of hit … Continue reading →

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Between Mars and Malacandra, Fantasy and Real Life (A Friday Feature Visit to the Vault)

Posted on June 23, 2017 by

This is a post from 5 years ago that I still quite like. What interested Lewis about planets as a literary backdrop was not their physical properties but their mythical properties—both how they worked in classical and medieval mythology, and how … Continue reading →

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On Food Insecurity, Systems Mapping, Beren and Lúthien, and Other Obviously Connected Things (An Update)

Posted on June 22, 2017 by

I have had one of those unusual weeks where my research with the government of Prince Edward Island has taken over. I have been in Lean Six Sigma training, which is a fairly heavy duty process management system. Our team … Continue reading →

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Please Vote: “The Outlaw In My Lineage” by Nicolas Dickieson

Posted on June 16, 2017 by

The other day I took my family for a walk around my land. It is just a handful of acres now, a field farmed for soybean or alfalfa. It once was part of a much larger 100-acre plot that was the … Continue reading →

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20 Years to 8 Children in Narnia with Author Jared Lobdell

Posted on June 14, 2017 by

I encountered Jared Lobdell’s work because he was one of the few critics to make C.S. Lewis’ WWII-era science fiction–what I call the Ransom Cycle–a study of its own. His 2004 book,  The Scientifiction Novels of C.S. Lewis: Space and … Continue reading →

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