I Suppose They Try To Make You Believe An Awful Lot Of Nonsense?Is It Nonsense? I Wish It Were. It Sometimes

“I suppose they try to make you believe an awful lot of nonsense?” “Is it nonsense? I wish it were. It sometimes sounds terribly sensible to me.” “But my dear Sebastian, you can’t seriously believe it all.” “Can’t I?” “I mean about Christmas and the star and the three kings and the ox and the ass.” “Oh yes, I believe that. It’s a lovely idea.” “But you can’t believe things because they’re a lovely idea.” “But I do. That’s how I believe.”

— Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

“Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things - trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that’s a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We’re just babies making up a game, if you’re right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That’s why I’m going to stand by the play-world. I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Aslan to lead it. I’m going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn’t any Narnia.”

— The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis

“Do you think all beauty is just the evidence of things not seen, David?” she had asked. “If it’s anything it’s that,” he had said. “I should say that faith is the belief in something that you don’t understand yet, and beauty is the evidence that the thing is there.”

— The Bird in the Tree by Elizabeth Goudge

“Ohhh, dadgummit!” Jack Schmitt tumbles over into the lunar dust during the Apollo 17 mission to the Moon, December 11-14, 1972.

figured i'd post em all here in color

clockwise from top left: Jack and Mr. Conductor (from the Shining Time Station TV series, yes),

Lothario (Rio) and his fiancée Veronica (whom he lovingly calls 'Veri-dear'),

and Mick (who in the previous post with him was named something like Tom, but he's definitely Mick now)

Who wants to draw pictures and play pretend with me tomorrow

imagine having a tea party in a weird dream nexus