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C. S. Lewis
Writing & NarrativeWho is C. S. Lewis in the Agency editorial?
C. S. Lewis was a British writer and scholar, author of The Chronicles of Narnia. Issue.6 names him once, in the caption of an image in the section on liquid modernity: "Three other wise men who you may see smoking a pipe one day", together with J. R. R. Tolkien and C. G. Jung.
In short
C. S. Lewis was a British writer and scholar, author of The Chronicles of Narnia. In the Agency editorial his name occurs once, in Issue.6, in an image caption and not in the author's running prose. The image sits in the section on liquid modernity, right after the paragraph that introduces Zygmunt Bauman, and its caption reads "Three other wise men who you may see smoking a pipe one day", followed by the names C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and C. G. Jung. The edition quotes no work of Lewis and says nothing else about him.
Key facts
- Who was C. S. Lewis?
- A British writer and scholar who lived from 1898 to 1963, author of The Chronicles of Narnia and a friend of J. R. R. Tolkien.
- Where does the Agency editorial name C. S. Lewis?
- In Issue.6, in the caption of an image placed in the section on liquid modernity, after the paragraph that introduces Zygmunt Bauman.
- Who is named with him?
- J. R. R. Tolkien and C. G. Jung. The caption calls the three of them wise men one may see smoking a pipe one day.
Who was C. S. Lewis?
C. S. Lewis was a British writer and scholar born in Belfast in 1898, who died in 1963. He taught at Oxford, where he was a friend and colleague of J. R. R. Tolkien, and wrote The Chronicles of Narnia. These facts come from outside the edition and are marked for verification.
How does C. S. Lewis appear in Issue.6?
Issue.6 opens its section on liquid modernity by introducing Zygmunt Bauman as a philosopher who identified the problems of society in our era. An image follows, with the caption "Three other wise men who you may see smoking a pipe one day" and the names C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and C. G. Jung. The text then goes back to Bauman. The caption is the only place where the editions name Lewis, and it says nothing about his books.
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