Monday, January 15, 2007

There's Aslan

The Silver Chair - C.S. Lewis

"It was the worse thing she (Jill) had ever had to do, but she went forward to the stream, knelt down, and began scooping up water in her hand. It was the coldest, most refreshing water she had ever tasted. You didn't need to drink much of it, for it quenched your thirst at once. Before she tased it she had been intending to make a dash away from the Lion the moment she had finished. Now, she realized that this would be on the whole the most dangerous thing of all. She got up and stood there with her lips still wet from drinking." (p. 21-22)

Jill: "I was wondering - I mean - could there be some mistake? Because nobody called me and Scrubb, you know. It was we who asked to come here. Scrubb said we were to call to - to Somebody - it was a name I wouldn't know - and perhaps the Somebody would let us in. And we did, and then we found the door open." "You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion. (p. 23)

Regarding Aslan's signs: "As you see, she had got the order wrong. That was because she had given up saying the signs over every night." (p. 103)

Puddleglum: "There are no accidents. Our guide is Aslan; and he was there when the giant King caused the letters to be cut, and he knew already all things that wouldcome of them; including this." (p. 160)

When the Witch is enchanting the underworld travelers and trying to convince them that there is no sun, they finally agree with her and then: "For the last few minutes Jill had been feeling that there was something she must remember at all costs. And now she did. But it was dreadfully hard to say it. She felt as if huge weights were laid on her lips. At last, with an effort that seemed to take all the good out of her, she said: 'There's Aslan." (p. 187)


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