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Now they fix spines instead By Art Raymond. Will there be a reckoning? February 4, — 17 Comments. Lewis knew what they are, of course, and he created his own at a young age. Inkling Sobriquets The Inklings were a richly creative community. Lewis , C. Tolkien , Likely Useless Trivia C. Join 2, other followers. Search Mere Inkling. Create a website or blog at WordPress. Follow Following. Mere Inkling Press Join 2, other followers. Sign me up. Lewis built for Mrs. Lewis, in Strandtown, Northern Ireland.
Lewis was initially schooled by private tutors before being sent to the Wynyard School in Watford, Hertfordshire, in , the same year that his mother died of cancer. Lewis's brother had already enrolled there three years previously. The school was soon closed due to a lack of pupils—the headmaster Robert "Oldie" Capron was soon after committed to an insane asylum. There is some speculation by biographer Alan Jacobs that the atmosphere at Wynyard greatly traumatized Lewis and was responsible for the development of "mildly sadomasochistic fantasies".
Four of the letters that the adolescent Lewis wrote to his lifelong friend Arthur Greeves out of an overall correspondence of nearly letters were signed "Philomastix" "whip-lover" , and two of those also detailed women he would like to spank. After Wynyard closed, Lewis attended Campbell College in the east of Belfast about a mile from his home, but he left after a few months due to respiratory problems.
As a result of his illness, Lewis was sent to the health-resort town of Malvern, Worcestershire, where he attended the prep-school Cherbourg House known to Lewis as "Chartres".
It was during his time at Cherbourg at the age of 13 that he abandoned his childhood Christian faith and became an atheist, becoming interested in mythology and the occult. Later he would describe its culture as a "burning desert of competitive ambition" relieved only by the "oasis" of pederastic loves between upperclassmen and the younger students, though he would also call this a "perversion".
Kirkpatrick, his father's old tutor and former headmaster of Lurgan College. As a young boy, Lewis had a fascination for anthropomorphic animals, falling in love with Beatrix Potter's stories and often writing and illustrating his own animal stories. He and his brother Warnie together created the world of Boxen, inhabited and run by animals. Lewis loved to read, and as his father's house was filled with books, he felt that finding a book he had not read was as easy as "finding a blade of grass.
As a teenager, he was wonderstruck by the songs and legends of what he called Northernness. These legends intensified a longing he had within, a deep desire he would later call "joy.
His writing in his teenage years moved away from the tales of Boxen, and he began to use different art forms epic poetry and opera to try to capture his newfound interest in Norse mythology and the natural world.
Studying with Kirkpatrick "The Great Knock", as Lewis afterwards called him instilled in him a love of Greek literature and mythology, and sharpened his skills in debate and clear reasoning. Lewis arrived at the front line in the Somme Valley in France on his eighteenth birthday. On 15 April , Lewis was wounded during the Battle of Arras, and suffered some depression during his convalescence, due in part to missing his Irish home. On his recovery in October, he was assigned to duty in Andover, England.
He was discharged in December , and soon returned to his studies. While being trained for the army Lewis shared a room and became close friends with another cadet, "Paddy" Moore. The two had made a mutual pact that if either died during the war, the survivor would take care of both their families. Paddy was killed in action in and Lewis kept his promise.
Paddy had earlier introduced Lewis to his mother, Jane King Moore, and a friendship very quickly sprang up between Lewis, who was eighteen when they met, and Jane, who was forty-five. The friendship with Mrs. Moore was particularly important to Lewis while he was recovering from his wounds in hospital and his father refused to visit him. His father probably didn't visit him because he was not acting as a Christian should. There has been some speculation among some Lewis scholars as to the nature of the relationship between Lewis and Jane Moore.
Lewis for most of his life introduced Moore as his "mother" to all his acquaintances. Lewis was exceptionally reticent on the matter in his autobiography, writing only "All I can or need to say is that my earlier hostility to the emotions was very fully and variously avenged". The biographer A. Wilson declared categorically that they had been intimate during the period of his convalescence, but this seems to be based on few and poorly interpreted letters, and owes something to Wilson's tendency to psychological interpretation.
Walter Hooper, Lewis's literary executor, allowed that it was possible, but as a late acquaintance his data are all derivative, as are Wilson's. George Sayer, who was a student of Lewis and later a friend, wrote that, after talking to Jane Moore's daughter, he was quite certain that they were lovers.
At any rate, their friendship was certainly a very close one. Ouachita Stories. Navigate this section:. Lewis you may not know October 24, - Becca Caughron November is the birth month of author and theologian C.
Even though he is known as an English writer, he is actually Irish and was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Lewis and J. Tolkien were close friends.
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