Post #4028218

2026-07-23 05:34 UTC

Obviously I am questioning the salvation and sincerity of #CSLewis. There's worrying details everywhere. He describes completely losing the sense of deep longing or Sehnsucht of which he writes in Surprised by Joy and gives the impression of thinking that he found his joy...oh dear oh dear...and that's wrong because the longing for Heaven should ALWAYS feel powerful to a mortal if they're actually still on Heaven's path. So if Clive Staples Lewis strayed from the right way, where did he end up? Examination of the imagery from The Pilgrim's Regress, full of upsetting details, may furnish a clue. (cont'd)

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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-23 05:44

I close by attempting to bridge what I'm talking about with this Jack Lewis business with another of my intellectual concerns, the frightening quality which André Gregory brings to My Dinner with André. One of the recollections which Gregory recounts to Wally Shawn, in his strange herky-jerky manner laced with inaccuracies, deals with a Scottish fellow, Robert Ogilvie Crombie or "ROC" (q.v. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ogilvie_Crombie) whom Gregory describes as "the best mathematician in Scotland" which seems false. Crombie wrote a book about having elaborate and highly detailed experiences of interacting with fauns and with the Great God Pan, and that feels very wrong. (cont'd)

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