Tag Archives: Silver Chair

My Literary Introduction to Eels

By Robin Bates | Published: October 5, 2022

Poaching is ravaging the populations of endangered eels. I first discovered eels were edible in a C.S. Lewis novel.

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The GOP in Trump’s Coils

By Robin Bates | Published: October 9, 2019

Trump is like the witch in Lewis’s “Silver Chair,” casting a spell on the GOP that gets them to believe an alternative reality.

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Morgan Le Faye through the Ages

By Robin Bates | Published: March 10, 2019

Monday Last week I finished teaching a short “Wizards and Enchantresses” course for Sewanee’s Lifelong Learning program and thoroughly enjoyed myself. Having already talked about my class on Merlin (see here, here, and here), today I share what I had to say about Morgan Le Faye and her successors. With Morgan, we looked at how […]

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