Marital Status Of Professor Digory

Tim Bruening <tsbrueni DeleteThis @pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> writes:

> I must therefore conclude that they somehow never got married
> to each other,

Why such a long road to this conclusion? Nobody but you claimed that
they should have been married in the first place.

I have numerous female friends. Even if I should marry one of them at
some future time - which I have no reason to suspect - I will still
have a number of female friends to whom I am not married.

> and wonder why.

Maybe they were never in love? Maybe both were to shy to suggest it?
Maybe it just never came up.

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"Peter B. Juul" wrote:

> Tim Bruening <tsbrueni.TakeThisOut@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> writes:
>
> > I must therefore conclude that they somehow never got married
> > to each other,
>
> Why such a long road to this conclusion? Nobody but you claimed that
> they should have been married in the first place.

Polly seems to have been closer to Digory than any other woman who wasn't
his mother! She stayed with him every holiday at his country estate. I
therefore figured that they would get married, until I read the start of
LWW which stated that the professor had no wife.
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In article <1136370310.636590.197240 RemoveThis @g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
William <williamquill RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:
>But still, I think it's a bit silly to presume that a boy and a girl
>who are close will end up getting married. Do you presume that the same
>would have happened with Jill and Eustace had they lived on earth
>longer?

But they make such a cute couple...

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William wrote:

> But still, I think it's a bit silly to presume that a boy and a girl
> who are close will end up getting married. Do you presume that the same
> would have happened with Jill and Eustace had they lived on earth
> longer?

That possibilty has crossed my mind.

If they do happen to fall in love in Heaven, would Aslan have the authority
to marry them?
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Tim Bruening <tsbrueni.RemoveThis@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> writes:

> If they do happen to fall in love in Heaven, would Aslan have the authority
> to marry them?

You need to study Lewis' view on Love and Heaven before asking such a
question.

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On 06 Jan 2006 00:10:57 +0100, p4.RemoveThis@enzym.rnd.uni-c.dk (Peter B. Juul) wrote:
/snip/

>You need to study Lewis' view on Love and Heaven before asking such a
>question.


Any particular book?



Bree
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Bree <bree DeleteThis @bree.com> writes:

> >You need to study Lewis' view on Love and Heaven before asking such a
> >question.
>
> Any particular book?

The book that flashed before my inner eye as I wrote the above was
"The Great Divorce". There may be something more appropriate on Love,
but hardly on Heaven.
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>The simple answer is this: When Lewis invented the old Professor in LWW
>(whose name we never learn in that book)

Not only that, we never learn the kid's names either. The name
Pevensie isn't mentioned until the first chapter of Dawn Treader.


>he had no idea that the same
>character would turn up as a boy five books later. He just made him the
>quintessential old bachelor scholar. The fact that Digory Kirke is the
>same person possibly was an afterthought that did not occur to him until
>he had written the better part of MN.

>Another argument, by the way, for reading the books in the order of
>publication.

No argument there. I made a similar point in an e-mail to Douglas
Gresham years back, that the books lost something when read in
chronological order, and that there was nothing particularly impressive
about Digory believing Lucy's story if you'd just read a book showing
you that he knew for a fact that Narnia existed. He replied back with
the same fact, that Lewis didn't know what would happen in later books
when he wrote it, which is true, but misses the point of why The
Magician's Nephew works much better as a flashback.

Now, one thing I hate to suggest, but which one could argue, is that
Digory really was married to Polly all along, and the first book gets
it wrong.

The Narnia books are supposedly written from by Lewis from accounts
told to him by the Pevensies, whom he had supposedly met. This is a
very subtle point, but there are the occasional hints of it. Such as
at the end of Dawn Treader:

>Lucy could only say "It would break your heart." "Why," said I, "was it so sad?" "Sad!! No," said Lucy.

If Lewis, the narrator, wrote the books from accounts given to him by
the Pevensies themselves, one could argue that the Pevensies got it
wrong, and simply assumed that Digory had no wife since none was in
evidence. Maybe he had one and she was away.

That's a pretty cheesy ploy, involving, as it does, arguing that the
book means the exact opposite of what it says, but it is possible.
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Paul Ciszek wrote:

> In article <1136370310.636590.197240.RemoveThis@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> William <williamquill.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:
> >But still, I think it's a bit silly to presume that a boy and a girl
> >who are close will end up getting married. Do you presume that the same
> >would have happened with Jill and Eustace had they lived on earth
> >longer?
>
> But they make such a cute couple...

Hypothetical couples in Narnia: Susan/Corin and Lucy/Tumnus.
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Dan Drake wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 18:41:16 UTC, Tim Bruening
> <tsbrueni DeleteThis @pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> > William wrote:
> >
> > > But still, I think it's a bit silly to presume that a boy and a girl
> > > who are close will end up getting married. Do you presume that the same
> > > would have happened with Jill and Eustace had they lived on earth
> > > longer?
> > That possibilty has crossed my mind.
> >
> > If they do happen to fall in love in Heaven, would Aslan have the authority
> > to marry them?
>
> Mark 12:25: For when they shall rise from
> the dead, they neither marry, nor are
> given in marriage; but are as the
> angels which are in heaven.
>
> which doesn't make it look like a question of authority.

What good is Heaven if you're not allowed to get married there?
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Graeme wrote:

> >The simple answer is this: When Lewis invented the old Professor in LWW
> >(whose name we never learn in that book)
>
> Not only that, we never learn the kid's names either. The name
> Pevensie isn't mentioned until the first chapter of Dawn Treader.
>
> >he had no idea that the same
> >character would turn up as a boy five books later. He just made him the
> >quintessential old bachelor scholar. The fact that Digory Kirke is the
> >same person possibly was an afterthought that did not occur to him until
> >he had written the better part of MN.
>
> >Another argument, by the way, for reading the books in the order of
> >publication.
>
> No argument there. I made a similar point in an e-mail to Douglas
> Gresham years back, that the books lost something when read in
> chronological order, and that there was nothing particularly impressive
> about Digory believing Lucy's story if you'd just read a book showing
> you that he knew for a fact that Narnia existed. He replied back with
> the same fact, that Lewis didn't know what would happen in later books
> when he wrote it, which is true, but misses the point of why The
> Magician's Nephew works much better as a flashback.
>
> Now, one thing I hate to suggest, but which one could argue, is that
> Digory really was married to Polly all along, and the first book gets
> it wrong.
>
> The Narnia books are supposedly written from by Lewis from accounts
> told to him by the Pevensies, whom he had supposedly met. This is a
> very subtle point, but there are the occasional hints of it. Such as
> at the end of Dawn Treader:
>
> >Lucy could only say "It would break your heart." "Why," said I, "was it so sad?" "Sad!! No," said Lucy.
>
> If Lewis, the narrator, wrote the books from accounts given to him by
> the Pevensies themselves, one could argue that the Pevensies got it
> wrong, and simply assumed that Digory had no wife since none was in
> evidence. Maybe he had one and she was away.
>
> That's a pretty cheesy ploy, involving, as it does, arguing that the
> book means the exact opposite of what it says, but it is possible.

How were Peter, Edmund, and Lucy able to tell Lewis about what they did in "The Last Battle", since they never
came back to Earth from their final mission?
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>How were Peter, Edmund, and Lucy able to tell Lewis about what they did in "The Last Battle", since they never
>came back to Earth from their final mission?


Hmm, good question. Maybe The Last Battle is fictional.
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Tim Bruening wrote:
>
> Dan Drake wrote:
>>Mark 12:25: For when they shall rise from
>>the dead, they neither marry, nor are
>>given in marriage; but are as the
>>angels which are in heaven.
>>
>>which doesn't make it look like a question of authority.
>
> What good is Heaven if you're not allowed to get married there?

What good is growing up if your parents aren't going to take care
of your every need any more?

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