The Silver Chair, Part 1: Signs and Blunders

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Welcome to Season Four!  

Chris is joined by Eric Geddes and author Jonathan Geltner to discuss Chapters 1 and 2 of the fourth book in the Narniad (is that what we're calling that now?), The Silver Chair. 

Among other things, we discuss:

• How we're all graduates of Experiment House now
• The school Experiment House was maybe sort of kind of based on
• The real means of getting into Narnia this time (is it the door or Aslan's breath?)
• Aslan's Country as Eden/The Terrestrial Paradise, and Pole and Scrubb's very literal Fall
• The role of the four signs and memory
• Knowledge, experience, and recognition
• The name of the book
• Silverchair (who were, as it turns out, fans of Narnia)

Things we didn't discuss but I'd planned to:

• The Door in the Wall, a beautiful fairy-story by H.G. Wells

Next:

• I'll be releasing brief recordings of poetry by the Inklings each Thursday. This coming Thursday, it'll be "Imram," by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Next Week:

• My wife Glencora and I will discuss Chapters 3 and 4 of The Silver Chair. Never fear--we will get to Puddleglum the following week!

This Season:

Shows on their way include:

• Interview with J.D. Peabody about The Inkwell Chronicles: Race to Krakatoa
• C.S. Lewis and World War I
• Interview with Connor Salter about Bill Gresham (Joy's ex) and his most important novel-turned-movie, Nightmare Alley
• George MacDonald's "The Golden Key"
• At last: Owen Barfield!
• Arthurian Torso
• Perelandra
• And quite a bit more. Stay tuned, and feel free to let me know what else you'd like to see.