Today’s Guardian carries an article about supposed planetary influences in the Narnia books. It politely calls this “medieval cosmology”. Apparently a BBC documentary will reveal all next Easter (oh look, symbolic timing!). That should give everyone plenty of time to get riled up. Archbishops will denounce Satanic influences at the BBC (which we all know is run by teh gays), questions will be asked in Parliament, and members of the House of Lords will be roused from their slumbers. The government will propose banning all fantasy novels “to protect the children” and introduce stringent new school exams to ensure that all of our kids acquire essential knowledge of classic British literature by such greats as Lewis, Tolkien and Rowling.
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Edward says the book is very convincing, but I’m sure he’d mentioned this theory to me before also. I was certainly talking about it in a lecture in September.
It sounded distinctly plausible to me too, but that won’t stop people getting their knickers in a twist, especially as the BBC is aiming for maximum outrage by broadcasting it over Easter.