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On C.S. Lewis |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / THE INKLINGS |
| Author: Christopher Derrick |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 5,211 Words, 28,895 Characters |
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Oxford, like every other English town, is full of pubs. One of them has acquired exceptional fame. You will see it on your left if you walk in a northerly direction up the board through fare known as St. Giles'. A painted sign outside depicts the Greek legend of Ganymede, carried up to heaven by an eagle: This is the celebrated Bird. Less briefly, it's the Bird and Baby. Officially, it's the Eagle and Child.
If you were to wander into the Bird and lunchtime today, you would see something curious. You would find people there who had simply come in for a drink, but you would find others who - instead or as well-had come in the spirit of pilgrimage, and some of these would probably be Americans. The Bird's small back room has become a kind of shrine, a holy place, richly adorned...
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...ing away in that unceasing torrent of wit and brilliance, beer mug in one hand, pipe or cigarette in the other.
Perhaps we shall meet one of these days, you and I, there at Oxford. If so, let us take a Tuesday lunchtime walk up St. Giles' and turn in under the sign of Ganymede; and in that shrine, surrounded by relics, let us raise or glasses to a very great man, a very great memory. vbcrlf
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