Tweet thread of the Day, That Wasn’t C.S. Lewis’s Point, Dagnabbit edition.

@KatinOxford has had it with simplistic complaints about Susan Pevensie and The Last Battle.  Absolutely had it.  So she brought the thunder.

She brought it so hard that almost nobody’s dared to argue back.  Not that they should, because her argument is so self-evidently correct it’d almost be silly to try.

4 thoughts on “Tweet thread of the Day, That Wasn’t C.S. Lewis’s Point, Dagnabbit edition.”

  1. I didn’t even realize this was a serious debate. Mostly seems like snobs who can’t get beyond Lewis’ Christianity to begin with.

    1. There’s a certain author who can’t quite get past the fact that he took the best swing he could at Lewis, yet didn’t manage to knock him down.

    2. It’s an idea that comes up from time to time. As the chain of posts mentions, the most high profile incident in the recent past has been an interview in which J. K. Rowling espoused the view. The idea seems utterly and completely alien to me, and I personally can’t see how anyone could fail to see Susan’s case as someone distracted from God by vanity and pride. But it’s apparent that at least some do.

      But given the general obsession that we as a human race has with sex, and the insistence on inserting it into some of the weirdest contexts imaginable, perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised.

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