A good book should leave you slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. - William Styron

Thursday, December 12, 2013

On Edmund, in the Chronicles of Narnia

"Edmund thus stands as a warning, a cautionary tale to everyone who reads the book. We are always becoming who we will be. We are, all of us, en-storied creatures, living our lives in a narrative, which means our lives have directions, trends, and trajectories. And these trajectories are guided by an Author who teaches us that we will reap what we sow. Right this minute, we are headed somewhere, and sooner or later, we are bound to end up there... Given the present trajectory of my life, what would happen if I should find myself stumbling through the wardrobe into Narnia? Will Providence guide me to meet a faun who becomes a friend, or a Witch who seeks to steal, kill, and destroy (or freeze, enchant, and murder)? Given the kind of person that I am right now becoming, what would be my reaction if I heard Aslan's  name for the first time?"

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