tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18086590.post5408529432433066147..comments2023-12-23T05:12:55.809-05:00Comments on The Written Nerd: Best-loved books of 2008, #21: Favorite classic revisitedBook Nerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02896226559142059293noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18086590.post-16368894623780759102008-12-22T09:40:00.000-05:002008-12-22T09:40:00.000-05:00Yes indeed - the humor (or as we say in the UK, th...Yes indeed - the humor (or as we say in the UK, the humour) which, as in the best children's books is so often based around the absurdity of adult behaviour. Like the passage in The Magician's Nephew when Digory and Polly return from their visit the Wood between the Worlds accompanied by the utterly terrifying Jadis, Queen of Charn, and Digory's uncle, through terrified of her, can't help but be enamoured at the same time: 'Children have one kind of sillines, as you know,' C S Lewis writes, 'and grown ups have another kind. At this very moment Uncle Andrew was beginning to be silly in a very grown up way. Now that the Witch was no longer in the same room with him he was quickly forgetting how she had frightned him and thinking more and more of her wonderful beauty. He kept on saying to himself, "A dem fine woman, sir a dem fine woman. A superb creature." He had also somehow managed to forget that it was the children who had got hold of this "superb creature"; he felt as if he himself by his Magic had called her out of unknown worlds.<BR/><BR/>"Andrew, my boy," he said to himself as he looked in the glass, "you're a devilish well preserved fellow for your age. A distinguished looking man, sir."'<BR/><BR/>Devilish indeed!Brian Keaneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17754984212153946279noreply@blogger.com