Capitol Ideas: Controversy in Shadowlands
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell Controversy in Shadowlands T he C.S. Lewis centenary approaches. Born in November 1898, he famously died on the same day as John F. Kennedy (and Aldous Huxley). Lewis...
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...Time wrote in 1977 that he was then "the only author in English whose Christian writings combine intellectual stature with best-selling status...
...After Warren's death, the Lewis estate passed to his stepsons, David and Douglas Gresham, who in turn sold all or part of their interest in 1976...
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...And the two pages on Paxford make no mention of the bonfire...
...So the manuscript of The Dark Tower was said to have been rescued from the flames...
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...The article on The Dark Tower in the Readers' Encyclopedia questions the work's authenticity and says it "gives the impression of having been written by an undergraduate fascinated with homosexuality...
...too much for anyone to read...
...There was so much paper that this alleged fire "burned steadily for three days," but at the end the gardener, Fred Paxford, saved some notebooks and papers because he knew that the young American visitor, Walter Hooper, "had the highest regard for anything in the master's hand," (implying that the Major did not...
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...The estate is registered in Singapore, with a holding company in Holland...
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...y ou hear them all the time, when other people speak — glaring mistakes, like 'fortunate' instead of 'fortuitous' or 'effect' instead of 'affect...
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...Other suspect pieces include two stories, "The Man Born Blind" and "Forms of Things Unknown," the essay "Modem Man and His Categories of Thought" [1986], and "Encyclopedia Boxonia" [1985...
...He is in demand as a speaker, and his engagements are announced on the Internet (Colorado Springs, August 24-26...
...Sample questions discussed on one site I have dipped into: Who owns the wardrobe...
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...A senior fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle and an assistant professor of political science at Seattle Pacific University, West has written extensively about Lewis's thoughts and ideas on politics...
...But in 1975 Hooper boasted in public that he had learned "to actually imitate [Lewis's] handwriting and forge his signature...
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...There is no question about the authenticity of Lewis's best known works, however, nor indeed of anything published before 1966...
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...The first executors of Lewis's estate, his friends Owen Barfield and Alfred Harwood, were anthroposophists — devotees of the "occult science" of the mystagogue Rudolph Steiner (1861-1925...
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...Barfield, who vouched for everything that Hooper said,died last December at the age of 99...
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...Without elaborating, he takes Hooper's side on The Dark Tower and has avoided comment on the literary estate...
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...Apparently he received no reply...
...By great coincidence, Hooper came by the house that very day, and was permitted to carry these treasures back to Oxford...
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...In fact, according to a recent report in Reader's Digest, "The highest achievers in almost any field are the highest scorers in vocabulary...
...Warren Lewis was in fact scrupulously careful about his brother's papers, and even sentimental about them, at one point badgering Walter Hooper to return some Lewis juvenilia that he had lent to him...
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...Gervase Mathew, identified by Hooper as having recalled hearing a part Questioning the authorship of some C.S...
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...Paramount Pictures is supposed to be filming the first Narnia chronicle, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, although the initial script apparently took too many liberties with the original and was turned down by the Lewis estate...
...The work itself does not read like C.S...
...The omission strikes me as significant because so large a volume, with perhaps half as many words again as the Encyclopedia, could easily have accommodated so important an event, and should have done so if the bonfire really happened...
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...The drama Shadowlands, about his marriage to the American divorcee Joy Davidman Gresham, was first broadcast by the BBC, then turned into a movie with Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger...
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...Among Lewis's better known works are Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength —the space trilogy—in which the hero is Dr...
...Warren Lewis died in 1973, and the new story, The Dark Tower, 62, pages in manuscript, was published in 1977...
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Vol. 31 • September 1998 • No. 9
