Weird, funny, surreal, fun, silly, bawdy, macabre, cool and strangely beautiful.
The Discarded Image is a Tumblr collection of Medieval illustrations gleaned from various illuminated manuscripts, bestiaries, books describing the cosmology of the Middle Ages,
ordered and maintained by a celestial hierarchy.
The Discarded Image is also the name of CS Lewis' last book, about the fascinating Medieval mindset and world picture.
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posted by nickyskye
on Apr 13, 2013 -
23 comments
There are no formal admissions or expulsions. People think they are in it after they have in fact been pushed out of it, or before they have been allowed in: this provides great amusement for those who are really inside. It has no fixed name. The only certain rule is that the insiders and outsiders call it by different names. CS Lewis on
The Inner Ring.
posted by shivohum
on Mar 21, 2013 -
66 comments
Turkish Despair. Aslan, please help us! Narnia is being overtaken by people in monochromatic outfits. Oh well, I suppose it was bound to happen. $$$ (I'm sure it's all
Edmund's fault.)
posted by jacknose
on Dec 11, 2001 -
29 comments
Aslan gets a makeover? (NYTimes link, reg. required, sorry.) Apparently Harper-Collins and the C.S. Lewis estate see a
Harry Potter-style merchandising bonanza in the Narnian Chronicles -- if they de-emphasize that pesky Christianity, that is, and write a few more Narnia books, and produce some plush toys of the Narnian characters. I feel queasy.
posted by litlnemo
on Jun 3, 2001 -
39 comments