Into the shadowlands

Today I was trucking over to the Maeser Building (which is on the very farthest corner of campus), trying to get to my Deductive Logic class on time, when I had an epiphany: I didn’t have to take that class. I’d forgotten that. :) So later this afternoon I dropped it and signed up for the C.S. Lewis class instead. :D Not only does this mean rationalization for buying more CSL books ~drool~, but it also means spending more time talking about him and his works. And I’m always happy to do that. I think I could study/discuss C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Hugh Nibley ad infinitum. Almost literally. I’ve started reading a few pages from the letters of Lewis and the letters of Tolkien before bed each night. It’s great for getting into the Inkling mood. And I haven’t started dreaming of Gollum or Puddleglum, either. :P

Oh man….what class is this you signed up for?? I wouldn’t mind taking it myself. Just rented “Shadowlands” the other day. Lewis fascinates me. I am guessing this class counts as an English credit?? If so, that would be sweet. I only have 2 more English credits to take, then I have an English minor! Woohoo!!

It’s Honrs 303R, section 5. :) (As for what it counts for, I’m not entirely sure, but it probably counts as an English credit.)

I’m pretty sure it doesn’t count for English credit. But hey, think of it as fulfilling a greater requirement of culture. :P

PS. Puddleglum is pretty much my favorite character ever.

I really don’t care what it “counts” for….just sounds like a class I ought to take. You’ll have to tell me all about it.

I think we’re reading The Screwtape Letters and The Great Divorce this week, but I still don’t have a syllabus yet. :) I’ll be sure to post about it.

I took the class a few years back and quite liked it. It is, though, entirely possible that as the professor warns, you will become enchanted, disenchanted, and then re-enchanted. I suppose it sounds strange but it happened to most of us in the class. I wouldn’t have had it any other way; by the time we read “Till We Have Faces” (sorry, can’t quite figure out the italics there) I had reached a newer and larger dialogue with Lewis because of the disenchantment phase.

It seems like there’s often a disenchantment phase, in a number of different areas. But as you say, when it’s followed by a re-enchantment, it’s worth it. Not that that makes the disenchantment any easier. :)