“Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect. Their secret country was real.”
- C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
Month: March 2020
met-egyptian-art: Ibex, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Egyptian…
Ibex, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Egyptian Art
Purchase, Vaughn Foundation Gift, by exchange, 1980 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Medium: Mottled semi-translucent quartz
“And I’d grown up not just in England, but in a land of fantasy. Though I was the kind of child who…”
“And I’d grown up not just in England, but in a land of fantasy. Though I was the kind of child who (like you, perhaps) read anything and everything, my true love was deep make-believe, from fairy stories to all the buried archetypes of folk tale and myth. Then when I went to the University of Oxford to study English literature, two professors named Tolkien and Lewis made sure that our syllabus stopped at the year 1832, so that we were soaked in the earliest fantasies of all: Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Malory’s Le Morte d'Arthur, Spencer’s The Faerie Queene. As a friend of mine said, ‘They taught us to believe in dragons.’”
- Susan Cooper, preface to the The Dark is Rising.
- Susan Cooper, preface to the The Dark is Rising.
IT’S ST DAVID’S DAY
which means it’s time to eat welshcakes, sing songs about saucepans, stand in a circle and slap your knees, pin leeks to your clothes, try desperately to remember the parts of your heritage that weren’t erased by centuries of anglocentric history, and watch someone be crowned the poet king on a wooden chair while a druid does sick sword tricks over their head
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi hapus, pawb!!!!!