12/13/2022 0 Comments The watcher chronicles dawn millerWe christened the abandoned badlands Fliaan. My friend and I hunted all over Albany for any kind of portal - a wardrobe, a rabbit hole, a passing twister - until in a vacant scrubland half drowned in standing water, we paused, sensing an air of solitude and mystery, of impending magic. In fact, I theorized that Lewis might have discovered some actual magic land and, protectively, disguised it as fiction. Miller, a staff writer at Salon, describes with clinical clarity standing on the curb on a sunny childhood afternoon wishing for two things: “First, I want a place I’ve read about in a book to really exist, and second, I want to be able to go there.” I, too, longed to believe in Narnia. The dust jacket featured a Pauline Baynes drawing of a dwarf proffering a steaming cup of something delicious.I trace my nascent yearning to become a writer of fantasies - before I learned that literary term - to the conjunction of the image of the dwarf and the word “chronicles.” One sunny Saturday, a childhood friend and I came across “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” in the public library in Albany, N.Y. In 1965, at the age of 11, I had found few books that bridged the gap between the skeletal honesty of the fairy tale and the weighty adventures that beckoned from adult novels. I, too, cherish the memory of my discovery of Narnia. In her unfolding relationship to Narnia, she recognizes “the desire to be carried away by something greater than ourselves - a love affair, a group, a movement, a nation, a faith. In “The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia,” Laura Miller explores her responses to “The Chronicles of Narnia” as a child enthusiast, a maturing apostate and an adult critic. His conviction enlivens his fiction, including his seven novels for children. Clive Staples Lewis was unapologetically a Christian apologist.
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