- •Pilgrim's regress
- •Preface to third edition
- •Did the instructors really mean it?
- •He hears of Death and what his elders pretend to believe about it
- •Everyone except John cheers up on the way home
- •Greed to recover Desire hides the real offer of its return
- •Ichabod11
- •Sin and the Law torment him, each aggravating the other
- •In hand she boldly took
- •Which can explain away religion by any number of methods
- •"Evolution" and "Comparative Religion"
- •And all the guess-work which masquerades as "Science"
- •He abandons his religion with profound relief
- •The Moral Imperative does not fully understand itself
- •John decides that Aesthetic Experience is the thing to pursue
- •For a moment it seems to have kept its promise
- •And would finally turn into Lust, but that in the nick of time
- •Ichabod22
- •The "modern" literary movement offers to "debunk" it
- •The poetry of the Machine Age is so very pure
- •The poetry of Silly Twenties
- •The "Courage" and mutual loyalty of Artists
- •It was a low-brow blunder to mention the most obvious thing about it
- •If Religion is a Wish-Fulfilment dream, whose wishes does it fulfil?
- •Its pretentiousness and cold frivolity
- •Its hatred of all systematic reasoning
- •Its ignorant and dilettante scepticism
- •Its unacknowledged dependences
- •These "sensible" men are parasitic
- •Their culture is precarious
- •Take away its power of commanding labour
- •And the whole thing collapses
- •In the presence of these thought traditional morality falters
- •Vertue is Sick
- •It is friends with the World and goes on no pilgrimage;
- •It is fond of wildflowers
- •Idealist Philosophy rejects the literal truth of religion
- •It is dangerous to welcome Sweet Desire, but fatal to reject it
- •Ignorantia
- •Its supreme mode of temptation is to make all else insipid
- •19 Leah for rachel refers to Genesis 29, where Jacob was tricked by his uncle Laban into taking Leah for his wife, rather than her sister Rachel, whom Jacob had really wanted.
- •24 Non est hic "He is not here." Vulgate for Luke 24:5-6
- •43 Archtype and Ectype words used by Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, II, XXX-XXXI, to mean "original" and "copy".
- •44 Esse is Percipi - "to be is to be perceived", Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge.
- •115 Exoteric and esoteric what is for public consumption, and what is for private consumption; for everybody, and for the inner few.
- •123 Monism the doctrine that matter and mind are one and inseparable--the philosophical corollary of pantheism, which sees God and uncreated Nature as indistinguishable
- •159 Limbo in traditional Christian belief the place where babies who die before baptism go and live forever in a state of natural happiness.
19 Leah for rachel refers to Genesis 29, where Jacob was tricked by his uncle Laban into taking Leah for his wife, rather than her sister Rachel, whom Jacob had really wanted.
20 "What is truth?" One of the early examples of Lewis's method of satirizing attitude he find shallow or absurd by having their allegorical mouthpieces utter cliches, vague, unanswerable generalities, or hackneyed quotations; the reference here is to Pontius Pilate's question in John 18:38; in the Mr. Sensible passages the method reaches its high point.
21 What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth: Keats: Letters: November 22, 1817.
22 ICHABOD: I Saml. 4: "She named the child Ichabod, meaning the glory is departed from Israel".
23 So long our bodies why do we forbear?...Else a great prince in prison lies: Donne: "The Extasy"
24 Non est hic "He is not here." Vulgate for Luke 24:5-6
25 Eschropolis from Gk (the word goes back to Homer) - base, shameful, ignoble, foul, dishonorable; = obscenity
26 Atalanta mythical girl of Arcadia who vowed to remain unmarried unless a man could run faster than she.
27 THROUGH DARKEST ZEITGEISTHEIM Sir Henry Stanley (rescuer of Livingstone), who wrote Through the Dark Continent (1878) and In Darkest Africa (1890) had already been parodied in 1890 by General (of the Salvation Army) William Booth with In Darkest England nad How to Get Out; "Zeitgeistheim" (Ger) means literally "home of the spirit of the time"
28 aspidistra plant of the lily family, grown for its foliage; the inevitable potted plant in the homes of the British lower-middle and lower classes before World War II
29 vieux jeu Fr - "old hat"
3030cod-piece - a jock-strap
31 stark this word (which some critics still cannot avoid) was among the first to be used in the modern critical terminology, whose main thrust is to say neither "good" nor "bad" and be deliberately ambiguous; it is a word with a remarkable gamut of meanings, but it became popular in the early Romantic movement as a a means of describing barren, desolate, unadorned landscapes.
32 hein? Fr interrogative noise = huh?
33 Phally a name made from phallus, or phallic
34 Nope it is interesting to notice the Americanisms that accompany the entire Eschropolis episode; Gus Halfways also says "guy" and "tell you what"; Lewis had not escaped, in 1932, the British tendency to associate all that was most vulgar and materialistic with America; all his life he had an ear sensitive to American language, and articles written specifically for US publications are in quite a different idiom from those intended for British publications (e.g.: the last thing Lewis wrote: "We Have No Right to Happiness," commissioned by the Saturday Evening Post in 1963; also "Screwtape Proposes a Toast")
35 pauperise this recent barbarism, first used around 1834, (perhaps by Harriet Martineau), is an example of Lewis's instinct for heightening the shock of a moral innovation (refusing help on principle to one in need) with a linguistic innovation appropriate to it.
36 menstruum menstrual discharge
37 pipkin small pot
38 you say that because you are a --: see Lewis's delightful essay on "Bulverism" in God in the Dock (Undeception in England)
39 Titaness a female member of the family of giants, born of Uranus and Gaea, overthrown by the gods of Olympus
40 There was a certain man who was going to his own house: compare with the series of problematic parables and trick questions in Matthew 21:23-22:28.
41 Let Grill Be Grill "Let Gryll be Gryll and have his hoggish mind" (Spenser: Faerie Queene, 11, 12). Gryll was one of those changed by Acrasth into a hog, but when Sir Guyon freed him from the enchantment he abused the knight for doing so, thus eliciting from the palmer the line quoted; Gk=swine.
42 psittacosis an infectious disease that can be transmitted from birds such as parrots to man.