C.S. Lewis, Madeliene L'Engle and J.R.R. Tolkien in a boxing match with Neil Postman

Postman: " ...the pictorial and narrative mode is of a lower order of complexity and maturity than the expository. Pictures and stories are the natural form in which children understand the world. Exposition is for grown-ups" (117)

Lewis: “The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what come through them was longing.” -Weight of Glory

JRR Tolkien: "There is a God-given desire for good stories"

L'Engle would just deck him.

I think you can figure out who I'm rooting for.
- posted by jennifer joy staab @ 1:48 PM