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The two types of fantasy writers
1. Feverishly calculating the body mass of your dragon species, spent 5 hours last night researching the origins of steel, losing sleep over horseshoes, 20 tabs open, should a cockatrice be warm-blooded?, will die if they don’t immediately figure out when honeybees were first domesticated
2.
“There are moments, most unexpectedly, when something inside me tries to assure me that I don’t really mind so much, not so very much, after all. Love is not the whole of a man’s life. I was happy before I ever met [her]. I’ve plenty of what are called ‘resources.’ People get over these things. Come, I shan’t do so badly. One is ashamed to listen to this voice but it seems for a little to be making out a good case. Then comes a sudden jab of red-hot memory and all this ‘commonsense’ vanishes like an ant in the mouth of a furnace.”
C. S. Lewis, from A Grief Observed (Faber and Faber, 1961)
You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. C. S. Lewis. Well said, Clive, well said……Bon Mardi, mes amis!
All get what they want in the end. They do not always like it.
Aslan, The Magician's Nephew; C. S. Lewis
Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him. Does that sound strange? The same principle holds, you know, for more everyday matters. Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you are making. Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. The principle runs through all life from top to bottom, Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end submit with every fibre of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
- C.S. Lewis
Turns out people really like me waffling about Narnia on Twitter.
So here’s a more hopeful spin on Susan Pevensie. (From the author’s pen to your eyeballs.)
📚 Mis lecturas del 2023 📚
¡Hola!
Lo venía haciendo en Twitter y decidí darle un mejor formato y mayor espacio, así que acá están mis lecturas de este año, en el orden en que fui terminando los libros.
Algunos los arranqué antes pero los pausé y continué con otro. Están clasificados y ordenados según la fecha en la que los terminé.
Enero:
Le Guin, Úrsula K. (1976) El Nombre del Mundo es Bosque. Editorial Minotauro
Albertalli, B. y Silvera, A. (2018) What if it's us
Klune, T. J. (2020) The House in the Cerulean Sea
Klune, T. J. (2020-2022) The Extraordinaries, Flash Fire, Heat Wave
Febrero/Marzo:
Continué lecturas, pero no terminé ningún libro, estaba preparando finales.
Abril:
Hall, Alexis (2020) Boyfriend Material
Doyle, Arthur C. (1902) El Sabueso de los Baskerville. Editorial Salvat.
Dick, Philip K. (1988) Cuentos Completos I: Aquí Yace el Wub
Hall, Alexis (2022) Husband Material
Mayo:
Marcos, Álvaro (2021) El Mago Merlín y el Poder del Dragón
Hall, Alexis (2022) Paris Daillencourt is about to Crumble
El-Motar, Amar, Gladstone, Max (2019) This is How you Lose the Time War
Miller, F., Janson, K., Varley, L. (1986) Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. Editorial OVNI.
Lewis, R., Mazzuchelli, D., Miller, F. (1988) Batman: Año Uno. Editorial OVNI.
LeBlanc, Maurice (1907) Arsène Lupin: Caballero Ladrón. Editorial Salvat.
Junio:
Dick, Philip K. (1989) Cuentos completos II: La Segunda Variedad.
Julio:
Silvera, Adam (2022) The First to Die at the End
Jemas, B., Bendis, B. M., Bagley, M., Thibert, A., Buccellato, S., Javins, M. (2001-2002) Spiderman, Poder y Responsabilidad. Marvel Comics. Editorial Salvat.
Álvaro, Marcos (2021) El Mago Merlín en la Torre Oscura
Agosto:
Machado, Antonio. (1899-1939) Poemas Esenciales. Selección de Jesús García Sánchez. Editorial Salvat.
Septiembre:
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1894) El Club de los Suicidas. Editorial Salvat.
Octubre:
Wells, Herbert George (1897) El Hombre Invisible.
Shelley, Mary (1818) Frankenstein, o el Moderno Prometeo
Capullo, G., Kubert, A., Lee, J., Snyder, S., Romita Jr., J. (2017-2018) Dark Nights: Metal. DC Comics. Editorial OVNIPRESS.
Noviembre:
Dick, Philip K (1989) El Padre-Cosa
Diciembre:
Millar, M. Kubert, A. & A. (2001-2002) Marvel Ultimave: X-Men. Men of Tomorrow. Return to Weapon X. Editorial Salvat.
Rothfuss, P. (2007) The Name of the Wind. DAW Books.
Cortázar, J. (2023) Historias de Cronopios y de Famas. 9a Edición. Buenos Aires, Punto de Lectura Editorial.
Arlt, R. (1926) El Juguete Rabioso. CAPÍTULO Biblioteca Fundamental Argentina. Centro Editor de América Latina.
Waw
I've asked an AI to draw pictures of Narnia and it did not disappoint
