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Michael Ward
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Siberian Shamans
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Blowback
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2012
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The Banker With a Face Full of Evil
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2012
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Shorts: Five Free Short Stories
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The Civilization of the Ravens
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2012
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A Quiet Kill in Interlaken
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A Dangerous Scotsman in Tajikistan
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A Hit Ordered by a Woman from London
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Property of New Delhi
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Shorts 2: Five Free Short Stories
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“In his essay “Equality” (1943), Lewis advises: “Watch the faces, mark well the accents, of the debunkers.” In other words, those who debunk tend not to be straightforwardly critical, but usually have “an agenda” (as we now say); the opposition that debunkers have to things is not honest and reasonable but tainted by an inferiority complex, or small-mindedness, or some other intellectual defect.”
― After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man
― After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man
“In Surprised by Joy Lewis notes how his father, Albert, was fond of telling anecdotes about Sir John Mahaffy, anecdotes which Lewis later (at Oxford) found attached to Benjamin Jowett. This, alas, is the fate of any great figure: to serve as a convenient magnet for stories or quotations that other people want to perpetuate, however inaccurately.”
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“Thus, in The Lion they become monarchs under sovereign Jove; in Prince Caspian they harden under strong Mars; in The Dawn Treader they drink light under searching Sol; in The Silver Chair they learn obedience under subordinate Luna; in The Horse and His Boy they come to love poetry under eloquent Mercury; in the Magicians Nephew they gain life-giving fruit under fertile Venus; and in the Last Battle they suffer and die under chilling Saturn.”
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