Lawrence
Mark McPherson is a local actor who portrays C.S. Lewis in a one-man show called "From Narnia, With Love: The Spiritual Voyage of C.S. Lewis." He'll be performing the show today at my church at 4p.m. The last time he came to St. Luke to do the show, he got to meet our own Larry Krieg, who as a child became semi-famous as the "Lawrence" who corresponded with Lewis from 1955-58.
Larry has posted his correspondence at a website. He was the one who expressed the neurotic fear that, by loving Aslan more than Jesus, he was guilty of idolatry. There's much more; I suggest you haul your fat carcass over there and have a look yourself. I was dismayed to learn one of Larry's letters prompted the most deeply misguided of all suggestions from Lewis: that one read the Narnia stories chronologically. Pernicious nonsense! All must read the books in the order I read them: as they were written, and as they were ordered in the box sets of my youth. I see the modern sets have been reordered. It's those dam' liberals, changing things again!
Umie the Umlaut says, "ask your doctor about the Fredösphere!"
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Paul Ford has a fine Lewis website, and a comprehensive Narnia encyclopedia
http://www.pford.stjohnsem.edu/ford/cslewis/narnia.htm
Clearly, LWW should come first. I think it's Ford that says, when they meet at the Beaver's house, the children don't know who Aslan is, nor does the reader - but if you've read MN, you do know.
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