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“Who are you?” asked Shasta.

“Myself,” said the Voice, very deep and low, so that the earth shook: and again “Myself,“ loud and clear and gay: and then the third time “Myself,“ whispered so softly you could hardly hear it, and yet it seemed to come from all round you as if the leaves rustled with it.

Mentally, I’m in the home of the Hermit of the Southern March.

“He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed, your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

I remember not liking Aravis much as a kid reading this. I like her a lot more this reread.

Forgot there was straight-up suicide content in here. Dang!

“For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you’re taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.“

“Even in this world, of course, it is the stupidest children who are the most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are the most grown-up.”

Forgot about Bism and its living gems! I’d love to read about the river of fire and the salamanders that swim in it.

“There is nothing like a good shock of pain for dissolving certain kinds of magic.”

“It is not easy to throw off in half an hour an enchantment which has made one a slave for 10 years.“

“They could think about nothing but beds and baths and hot meals and how lovely it would be to get indoors. They never talked about Aslan, or even about the lost prince, now. And Jill gave up her habit of repeating the signs over to herself every night and morning. She said to herself, at first, that she was too tired, but she soon forgot all about it.“

lol @ “Experiment House”

It was “coeducational,” a school for both boys and girls, what used to be called a “mixed“ school; some said it was not nearly so mixed as the minds of the people who ran it. lol

“Come and have breakfast,” said the Lamb in its sweet, milky voice.

“That’s one of the funny things about the Duffers,“ said the Magician. “One minute they talk as if I ran everything and overheard everything and was extremely dangerous. The next moment, they think they can take me in by tricks that a baby would see through—bless them!”

“He is the light-giver; we are to become light-bearers.“

I thought the idea of being a light-bearer was so beautiful that out of curiosity I looked up that term in Hebrew. Guess what the term was? Lucifer. Egads!

“For Aslan had breathed on him at their meeting, and a kind of greatness hung about him.“

Oh, the things you notice on the second read of a good book. The wild romp of Bacchus and Silenus bit here led me to this article: https://au.thegospelcoalition.org/art...

“Wouldn’t it be dreadful if someday in our own world, at home, men started going wild inside, like the animals here, and still looked like men, so that you’d never know which were which?“

No!