The Church in Molecule

C. S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table, and Other Reminiscences Edited by James T. Como Macmillan, 299 pp., $9.95 C. S. Lewis would surely have deprecated the personal attention he has received since his death. This is merely one fact about him, and his admirers (including me) give it no more and no less respect than all the other facts about him that they (we) so eagerly gobble. It is rather as if they were to study a particularly retiring sort of animal with the observation: “Look how it dislikes attention! What else do you notice about it?”

This book is a collection of two dozen brief memoirs by people who knew him. It is not the first such book, nor over-all the best; but it is good enough. We don’t necessarily want a book that surpasses the others. We just want another book. We want more Lewis.

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C. S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table, and Other Reminiscences Edited by James T. Como Macmillan, 299 pp., $9.95 C. S. Lewis would surely have deprecated the personal attention he has received since his death. This is merely one fact about him, and his admirers (including me) give it no more and no less respect than all the other facts about him that they (we) so eagerly gobble. It is rather as if they were to study a particularly retiring sort of animal with the observation: “Look how it dislikes attention! What else do you notice about it?”

This book is a collection of two dozen brief memoirs by people who knew him. It is not the first such book, nor over-all the best; but it is good enough. We don’t necessarily want a book that surpasses the others. We just want another book. We want more Lewis.