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Re: revisionism
> To put it another way, what you think of as "plausible" is intimately
> related to what you've experienced.
To bring this back to Narnia, I always felt a little ripped off when it
turned out the Professor had himself been to Narnia when he was a boy.
You might say his boyhood experience made Lucy's story seem more
"plausible" to him than it did to Peter and Susan. Until I read _The
Magician's Nephew_, I had always understood the Professor to be, in
essence, an unbeliever who came to believe Lucy's story, based on the
evidence (Lucy's testimony and character, etc.) and a sturdy set of
criteria by which to evaluate it. If the Professor could rationally
believe Lucy's seemingly outlandish story, it gave me hope that the
seemingly outlandish claims of Christianity could stand up to rational
scrutiny. So imagine what a letdown it was to discover the Professor
hadn't only been to Narnia himself, but had built the wardrobe with
Narnian wood. Suddenly the apologetic value of the Professor scenes in
_The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe_ wasn't so impressive any more.
--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- peter at chattaway_com ---
"I detected one misprint, but to torture you I will not tell you where."
Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence, re Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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