The Silver Chair, Part 4: How to Cook For Forty Giants

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This week, Chris is joined by a panoply of first-time and returning guests, such as Eric Geddes, Jonathan Geltner, Joseph Weigel, and Glencora Pipkin, to talk about The Silver Chair, Chapters 7-9.  Hopefully you'll find our many digressions refreshing and stimulating--not irritating and uncomfortable, like so many irregular trenches carved into a hill.

Among other things, we discuss:

• Whether we're more afraid of heights or depths (we'd love to hear from you on this question).
• Chris feels vindicated that Lewis had trouble finding a name for this book.
• The V-structure (see Planet Narnia) of The Silver Chair
• The Faerie Queene and the fringes of England and Narnia
• Sources, and Eric's hypothesis about "Narnia and the North"
• Education and The Silver Chair
• Loss of Agency Resulting from Comfort
• The Nature of Dreams
• The Children's Cascading Epiphanies!
•  Humor and Tension in Harfang
• "It's a Cookbook!"
• "It's only cannibalism if your meal was hnau."
• Education as instilling virtue

Here's a link to Jonathan Weigel's podcast, "Men with Chests": Men with Chests on Apple Podcasts

Here's a link to Jonathan Geltner's substack, blog, and books.

 

This Thursday: A poem!  By one of the Inklings, probably!  You'll know when I do!

Next week: Finale of The Silver Chair!