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C. S. Lewis and the Power of Story - Pt. 2
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C. S. Lewis and the Power of Story - Pt. 2

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Last week, I began with the character in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader called Eustace Clarence Scrubb and mentioned that C.S. Lewis was quick to point out the boy “almost deserved it.”

Eustace was “up-to-date and advanced,” calling his parents “Harold and Alberta” instead of mom and dad, but he had no friends and he read all the wrong books. And here i…

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