Several readers plucked this:

“Lewis, if anyone wants my opinion, was a very odd bird. Not the least

odd thing about him was that for all his Anglicanism, tweed jackets,

steam trains, nautical obsessions, bossy governesses, horrible schools,

neglectful parents, and lack of interest in food and sex, he is more

read and admired in the U.S.A. than in England…”

from my remarks about C.S. Lewis in yesterday’s column, and told me that the

reason was simply that England has ceased to be a Christian country,

while the USA has continued to be one.