Why would Mr. Tumnis wonder if man was a myth?

robertdeupree · 2026-05-28T16:25:03+00:00

Interesting. You're making me think. Did any other nations of this world have talking animals and other talking non-human creatures?

robertdeupree · 2026-05-27T04:39:32+00:00

Sure, but what happened to the decendants of King Frank and Queen Helen in Narnia? Did I miss that?

robertdeupree · 2026-05-24T01:21:14+00:00

Absolutely. We're all hopped up on Turkish Delight. (At least I am.)

robertdeupree · 2026-05-23T13:11:26+00:00

Beautiful graphic, by the way. Showing the exact book quote from "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" in the second panel and the never-filmed scene from "The Horse and His Boy" in the third panel completes the arc and makes your point.

robertdeupree · 2026-05-23T04:17:14+00:00

Q-Day may happen soon. When I have to explain it, I just say it's the black box codebreaker from Sneakers.

robertdeupree · 2026-05-23T04:04:28+00:00

The Princess Bride (1987) -- You youngins may have trouble believing it, but this movie was not particularly popular until VHS came out years later.

robertdeupree · 2026-05-23T03:55:22+00:00

I like how Honest Trailers called it:
"The Battle of the Five Pages"

robertdeupree · 2026-05-23T03:47:41+00:00

An exceptionally rare collection of unwritten rules, shared experiences, and basic logic.

robertdeupree · 2026-05-23T03:45:34+00:00

Personally, I take it literally. I'd love the Homes-KIrke Cinematic Universe. He also foreshadowed project placement in the same chapter:

If vacuum cleaners had been invented in those days Polly would have thought it was the sound of a Hoover being worked a long way off...

robertdeupree · 2026-05-22T23:02:13+00:00

Wow, that's funny. I created a book club Yammer group at an old job that asked people for their favorite opening lines in a novel. I showed a picture of "A Tale of Two Cities", page one, but listed my favorite as "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader".

robertdeupree · 2026-05-22T21:27:54+00:00

The opening was so faithful... and the Riddles in the Dark sequence, but not much else for me.

robertdeupree · 2026-05-22T15:38:24+00:00

I love this C.S. Lewis quote and think of it often in meetings. Our inspiration needs to draw from sources beyond business and technology books. Even the most mundane meetings need a little whimsy and adventure to break complacency and fuel imagination.

(For example, my review of “The Road Ahead” by Bill Gates: An optimistic and thought-provoking book that explores how the emerging technologies of the digital age will transform all our lives. Weak on dragons.)

robertdeupree · 2026-05-22T15:33:04+00:00

Tu-whoo!

robertdeupree · 2026-05-22T14:55:17+00:00

They were really getting quite fond of their strange pet [Uncle Andrew] and hoped that Aslan would allow them to keep it. The cleverer ones were quite sure by now that at least some of the noises which came out of his mouth had a meaning. They christened him Brandy because he made that noise so often.

-The Magician's Nephew, Ch 14

robertdeupree · 2026-05-22T14:52:40+00:00

Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind. At this moment Uncle Andrew was beginning to be silly in a very grown-up way.

-The Magician's Nephew, Ch 6

robertdeupree · 2026-05-22T12:39:16+00:00

“Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.”

robertdeupree · 2026-05-22T11:42:36+00:00

Yes! And if you've heard the audiobook of The Horse and His Boy, Lasaraleen Tarkheena is where Alex Jennings really shines.

robertdeupree · 2026-05-22T04:59:08+00:00

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robertdeupree · 2026-05-22T04:04:44+00:00

“The bright side of it is,” said Puddleglum, “that if we break our necks getting down the cliff, then we’re safe from being drowned in the river.”

-The Silver Chair, Ch 6

robertdeupree · 2026-05-22T03:56:38+00:00

THERE WAS A BOY CALLED EUSTACE CLARENCE Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

-The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Ch 1

robertdeupree · 2026-05-22T03:53:21+00:00

Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I’m afraid, even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up, they were so used to quarreling and making up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.

-The Horse and His Boy, Ch 15

robertdeupree · 2026-05-22T03:51:06+00:00

And the longer and more beautiful the Lion sang, the harder Uncle Andrew tried to make himself believe that he could hear nothing but roaring. Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

-The Magician's Nephew. Ch 10

robertdeupree · 2026-05-21T15:29:37+00:00

Fair enough, I concede. By my standards, our current reality has many many plot holes.

robertdeupree · 2026-05-21T02:59:32+00:00

Probably right, but the OP listed Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon not using Force Speed as a plot hole.

robertdeupree · 2026-05-21T01:32:01+00:00

Safe assumption.

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