How to get to Narnia

Just realised that of the five times people from this world accidentally go to Narnia, two involve spare rooms, and two involve railway stations. 

Does this have any significance? Who knows? 

So, along with hands and books, AI can't draw doors.

East/West

A random thought I just had:

In Narnia, the sea is on the east, and beyond it, in the 'utter east' is Aslan's country.

In Middle Earth, the sea is on the west, and beyond it* is Valinor, the home of the immortals.

No idea of the significance of this - just interesting.

Anyway, I'd better get back to hoovering...

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* technically, since the world was made into a sphere, it is no longer on the surface of the globe. Still, you sail west to get there, should you have a boat capable of escaping the 'circles of the world'

Perelandra

I'm reading Perelandra to get some inspiration for my Adam & Eve illustrations. Not  to get concrete info, but to imaginatively get into a pre-Fall world*.

C.S. Lewis had some imagination!

I really like this cover. Only improvement could be some green. And a more interesting font for the title.

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*Pre-Fall in Venus, but post-Fall and post-redemption on Earth, which makes a lot of difference to how the story works out...

Children's books

"this is a children’s book only in the sense that the first of many readings can be undertaken in the nursery"

C.S. Lewis on The Hobbit

Another quote

Christian literature comes from Christian novelists and dramatists — not from the bench of bishops getting together and trying to write plays and novels in their spare time.

C.S. Lewis