Quote of the Day

"What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are."

- C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)

After the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, Lewis and his wife took child evacuees from London and other cities into The Kilns (the house in Risinghurst, Oxford, England, he wrote all of his Narnia books and other classics). Lewis was only 40 when the war began, and he tried to re-enter military service, offering to instruct cadets; however, his offer was not accepted. He rejected the recruiting office's suggestion of writing columns for the Ministry of Information in the press, as he did not want to "write lies" to deceive the enemy. He later served in the local Home Guard in Oxford.