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NARNIA WEEK: Infinite Quest
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— 10 Jan 2011 Pete Baran Comment

David Foster Wallace vs CS Lewis.
Or at least here is a few pages of Wallace’s copy of The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe replete with inky marginalia. The notes at one point make referenc to someone called JC: WHO HE?

Stolen from io9, w[…]

NARNIA WEEK: Yours Is A Younger World
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— 10 Jan 2011 Tom 17 comments

My favourite part of any subcreation is its edges – apocrypha, marginalia, the sketches and hints at grander unrealised designs. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth is detail-rich (to say the least) but I’d linger fascinated on the Blue Wizards,[…]

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