talks on them this week in father newhouse said, you know, there are people who can stop reading c.s. lewisand those who can't. and the latter are eventually thought to be lewis scholars. and so in my own life, i know there's i'm always got something by lewis, but then i'm just consistently impressed with his insights here, there and everywhere there are some things i think he got wrong, which is a different talk, but most part i think he's remarkable and i think that's because he lived through languages and books and in the different epochs and eras. he was able to read. you know, he said he sometimes found himself thinking in greek for those of you who know another language, you to the point where, you know, when you if you were an american, you wake up his writing and you think he'll play, you know, you know french, if that's what comes. he's what he this was inhabited those things and then he also you know he lived a life at oxford that was kind of the protestant version of a monastery. right. he wasn't married every night to dinner, was with other scholars. he was asked by oxford to wr

yeah >> c.s interpreted things? yeah >> cs lewisligious responses. he said , oh, explain. responses. he said, oh, explain. >> what does that mean? well he said that in his own childhood he had always felt it difficult to feel about the christian story the way he was told he ought to feel an obligation to feel can freeze feelings, he said. >> and so if you strip the story of its stained glass and sunday school associations and cast it into a magical world, then perhaps you might be able to make people just respond with the appropriate emotions when they're not expected to feel certain ways that was one of his intense, but quite aside from that, he was just wanting to write a good story that could be enjoyed. whether or not you pick up on the christian symbols. >> um, thing i find about >> um, the thing i find about his books, they're not just kids books, am i right or wrong? i mean, they thought the mean, they were i thought the illustrations and illustrations were amazing and they draw you in. and this whole concept out there would