Talk:C. S. Lewis

message: His dog was killed by a car in 1902 in Belfast? --95.24.65.207 (talk) 14:54, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: This would appear to be the case. I'm guessing you're dubious about the odds of a dog being struck by a motor vehicle in 1902. Based on my quick and shallow research, it looks like the first car was imported into Ireland in the late 19th century, so it was indeed possible for the dog to be struck by a vehicle, though perhaps statistically unlikely. If the story is true, that was a very unlucky dog. pillowcrow 19:37, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: In the late Victorian era "car" was a common term for a horsed carriage that was not a professionally driven coach but driven by the rider. Had it been motorised it would have been termed "motor-car".Cloptonson (talk) 15:20, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text:  That's fascinating. Do you know of any sources that explain that? Or any that confirm that the dog was struck by a horse-drawn carriage and not an early motorized vehicle? Thanks. pillowcrow 22:12, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't have an authoritative dictionary like the Shorter Oxford that dates the usage of words. It was anecdotal I found out what I now know. In Shrewsbury Cemetery is a gravestone of am army officer, Major Wilmsdorf Mansergh, who the epitaph says "was killed by being thrown from his car" in 1893. When I came across the headstone I thought "first Shropshire motor fatality" but when I later read the account of his death and inquest in the local newspaper of the day I learned the vehicle was horsed. Did Lewis himself leave any written reminiscences that shed more detail on the car that killed his childhood dog or its driver?Cloptonson (talk) 06:43, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I have yet to find anything from Lewis himself regarding the matter, but I did find a book called Jack's Life: The Life Story of C.S. Lewis by Douglas Gresham, a stepson of Lewis. In it he writes that the dog was run over "probably by a horse and cart as there were almost no cars in the time and place where he was a child" (the page is viewable through Google Books—the very first page of the first chapter). Of course, this doesn't answer whether "car" referred to a horse-drawn carriage (though your discovery at the cemetery would strongly imply such), but it's a good clarification of the incident, so I think I'll make an edit. Gresham also seems to imply that the dog wasn't actually owned by Lewis but rather was a neighborhood dog. pillowcrow 16:48, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dog killed by car 

message: C. S. Lewis' many other works are addressed, but little is said of his works that were not published. In particular, he was one of six men asked to revise the Anglican Psaltry. He did so with T. S. Eliot, who he previously resented and mocked (per his journals) but who became is friend. Eliot was the Faber & Faber editor who approved the publication of "A Grief Observed" under a pseudonym (first edition). Eliot influenced Lewis later in life, as they worked together, but is not mentioned in the article. Could that be added? CSTKing (talk) 03:15, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editing Anglican Psaltry 

message: Please add additional supporting text regarding The Dark Tower:
Nebula-winning Author Gene Wolfe (a practicing Catholic) also felt that "The Dark Tower" was not written by Lewis. 
"GW: Oh, yes, The C. S. Lewis Hoax. With Lewis it is posthumous stuff that
apparently is not Lewis at all. I was one of those people who read The Dark
Tower and got very suspicious because I was familiar with Lewis and I
think I am pretty good at spotting styles. ... I think I could write much better imitation C. S. Lewis
than a lot of this supposedly posthumous stuff that is coming out. I could
do it better than this guy does and I think practically any decent writer
could do it better than this guy does, because he’s not a writer. The reason
that there is not more of that than there is, is that the people who can do
it would rather write under their own name and take the credit for themselves. Why should they waste their talent in forging work for a dead man?"
reference:
https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/1992-jordan.pdf, p. 103 Mapleleiff (talk) 18:26, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Charliehdb (talk) 12:13, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 17 April 2024 

message: Did you know mr. Lewis liked to be called jack?? IHAVEDOG (talk) 15:40, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: That is covered in the second paragraph of the "Childhood" section in the article. Deor (talk) 16:45, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh ok IHAVEDOG (talk) 15:14, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

text: When he was two he insisted that everyone call him Jack IHAVEDOG (talk) 16:42, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: not when he was 4 IHAVEDOG (talk) 17:29, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

text: Source? pillowcrow 20:21, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clive Staples Lewis