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Here in The Magician’s Nephew, the theme of love and loss is treated with sensitivity and blooms out of the Venereal donegality with a naturalness and inevitability. Digory realises that ‘there might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death’; that is, he acknowledges the possibility of denying his love of Aslan for the sake of clinging on to his Mother. Instead of preferring a reflection of divine Charity in a subsidiary, creaturely relationship, he allows himself to be embraced by ‘the translunary virtue, fallen direct from the Third Heaven, unmitigated.’ Perfect love casts out his fear of being orphaned because he knows that, ultimately, he cannot be orphaned in a world held within the arms of Venus.
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Michael Ward, Planet Narnia (Loc. 4177-86)
I aspire to someday write with the eloquence and deeply meaningful insight that Michael exhibits throughout this delightful book in his analysis of one of my greatest heroes.
I have been clipping many quotations from the book as I’ve been working my way through it; I expect that many more will arrive here on my Tumblr presently.
