RE: bessie & bowels

John, Lewis like myself saw that other world he expressed in his stories all
about him as well. But I suspect that you are not familiar with Lewis's
'other'. The kid's experiences may share a glimpse of it for different
reasons but it is something else. I also suspect what Franz was alluding to
is something different in intent then Lewis but it is drawn from the one
well. I think it is interesting that two different writers knew the
'secret' of 'the other' in tale telling. Not only does it say something
about Lewis and Kafka but all of us as well. Tolkien ,by the way,
understood this 'secret' as did Williams, Sayers, Chesterton, MacDonald,
Barfield, Herbert, Morris, Donaldson and others. And I would say that
Charlie Kaufman almost gets it.
Daniel
 
 
 --John

PS: Daniel, as usual, Lewis's reading tells us as much if not more about
Lewis as it does about Franz's stories. That's as it should be, of course.
I don't know, but I suspect Lewis's idea of what he calls "the spirit" and
Franz's would have been rather different. In any case, it's certainly a lot
different from mine. But I do understand the vague sense of "otherness"
that he's talking about -- even if I don't share his need for those
particular metaphors. In fact, there's nothing "other worldly" about Kafka
for me, really. I see the world of those stories all around me all the
time. And if I ask my kids about their first week getting registered and
starting work on a very large university campus, they're likely to tell me
the very same thing. But I have no problem with Lewis's reading either. It
works just fine.

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Received on Fri Aug 22 10:19:45 2003