{"id":42313,"date":"2024-07-22T06:30:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T18:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=42313"},"modified":"2024-07-21T17:55:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T05:55:30","slug":"more-on-fairytales-a-quote-from-cs-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2024\/07\/22\/more-on-fairytales-a-quote-from-cs-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Fairytales &#8212; A Quote from CS Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.&#8221;<\/span> <\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\" style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8211; C.S. Lewis, 1898 &#8211; 1963<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9293 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/NarniaLamppost.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/NarniaLamppost.jpeg 182w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/NarniaLamppost-150x117.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I feel reasonably confident there\u2019s no need to introduce CS Lewis, but I do think this quote on his love of fairy tales is a nice continuation from last week\u2019s quote from Sara Maitland on the magic of \u201cOnce upon a time\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reflections on what it truly means to be grown up is also a recurring theme in the Narnia stories, so it\u2019s interesting to see the connection to the author\u2019s own lived experience.<\/p>\n<p>My own \u2019umble opine on the matter is that if we love a particular story or a kind of storytelling then it doesn\u2019t matter what others think, we should read and reread away \u2013 which I believe is also implicit to the Lewis quote. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28166\" style=\"width: 263px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28166\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28166\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/The-Lion-The-Witch-The-Wardrobe_1-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/The-Lion-The-Witch-The-Wardrobe_1-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/The-Lion-The-Witch-The-Wardrobe_1-126x150.jpg 126w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/The-Lion-The-Witch-The-Wardrobe_1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-28166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A story for lovers of the magical, regardless of age&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.&#8221; &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42313"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42318,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42313\/revisions\/42318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}