A Spell in the Library: a Spell for the refreshment of the spirit
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- In this visit I read you a passage from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader about Lucy in the magician’s study and then I read my own sonnet on CS Lewis from my book The Singing Bowl (canterburypres...) Here is the sonnet:
CS Lewis
From 'beer and Beowulf' to the seven heavens,
Whose music you conduct from sphere to sphere,
You are our portal to those hidden havens
Whence we return to bless our being here.
Scribe of the Kingdom, keeper of the door
Which opens on to all we might have lost,
Ward of a word-hoard in the deep hearts core,
Telling the tale of Love from first to last.
Generous, capacious, open, free,
Your wardrobe-mind has furnished us with worlds
Through which to travel, whence we learn to see
Along the beam, and hear at last the heralds
Sounding their summons, through the stars that sing,
Whose call at sunrise brings us to our King.
Beautiful words. These videos transport me to a simple happy time, when men were content with a book, a pipe, and a furry best friend. When men were thinkers and doers. Men of refine, of gravitas, and of principle. Thank u for allowing us to enter the portal into your world, I do appreciate these videos
You have these one liners that just make your world pop downside up, please continue creating content to bless us with your spirit n knowledge
Wonderfully inspiring. My daughter heard you preach in Clare Chapel many years ago and said, ‘Oh, mum, you’d love listening to him,’ ..and she was right. Thank you
Thanks, I'm glad I lived up tp your daughter's billing!
Thank you so much for your videos. Each one is better than the last. They provide much-needed comfort in these difficult times.
I just happen to come across your video by chance, and I'm so glad I did. I'm looking forward to catching up to the present. Best wishes
Lovely. Books as portals, yes. Thanks. Refreshing indeed, in these secluded, solitary days.
Thank you for these, Malcolm. It’s wonderful to get a taste of what it’d be like to visit with you for a while. And I’m glad we got to see a bit of George!
Your readings, poetry, and just all around gentleness is incredible. Thank you so much for all of it and for helping to inspire my reading books again
You are so welcome
This is inspiring!! I love reading so much! I commute 2hrs one way to work and the only thing that saves me is audio books! Not my preferred method, but gets me by.
A true blessing of comfort at ths time, Thank you. Jennifer
thanks
I have supped from the cup of contentment, the claret of thoughts, magic and fascination...and am refreshed in spirit...and made happy in my soul 😊
Wonderful!
Lovely! Thank you.
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Every library should have an old Peterson box left randomly among its shelves
Well done! Thank you from America. You have made our time indoors a bit more tolerable.
"...give scholarship the kiss of life with a verse." Out. Standing. Although you'd probably best be In. Standing just now. Thanks for this. It's good.
Beautiful. I"m in tears. It's all true. In the moment. We're all in the story now. I just happened on this, obviously not by chance.
I'm new here, and I don't know how I came across your channel, but I am so glad I did. I am looking forward to watching and listening to all the stories.
I love the way you speak, so much passion, great story teller!
I can’t wait to crack on with my second book now, it really is inspiring and I thank you. 😊
These "visits" with you in your study help make this isolation bearable and encourage me to pick up a book! I was so looking forward to joining you and others at Oxbridge this summer, but these small videos will have to do until next year...
Thanks, yes I was really looking forward to Oxbridge but we have to make do with what we can until we come out of this!
I am new to your channel and studying English Literature - thank you so much for all your talks on books! It is so lovely to listen to someone with a genuine passion who really seems to understand the texts. May I request a bookshelf tour?
I guess these episodes will gradually accumulate into a bookshelf tour, but i could do an individual one as well
Marvelous!
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I think it's best we never meet, because there would be no end to the conversation. Golly! We would be "crabbed, cabined, and confined" within it. Whatever play that's from, by Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of oxford. Best wishes, Noel
Beautiful! Only thing missing here is a smokers cap and a long churchwarden.
I do in fact possess both of those - I'll have to feature them in a video some time
Hello, isn't "crabbed, cabined, and confined" from Macbeth. I'm sure it is. Please get your plays right, sir! 😂 The hamlet speech, "king of infinite space" is truly something else.. Obviously, including one of the most celebrated lines in world literature..... "for nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so". Thank you, Malcolm, for this magical, enchanting film. It's wonderful. Noel
yes you're right Macbeth - in Hamlet its the nutshell
@@MalcolmGuitespell I'll let you off this time,
"so farewell love and verse, and every toy,
The rhymes and rattles of the man and boy". The Dunciad, Alexander Pope.
If there is a god it is most certainly logos and nous, as Thoth was well aware of, he who became hermes Trismegistus in Greece. And as Goethe says in the opening lines of Faust, part one.... "in the beginning was energy, and the energy was the word. Best wishes, Noel, the poet.
Where did the Idea of knocking and walking in come from?
I thought of it myself. I started this channel in lockdown do my students could still have a chance to 'visit' their old chaplain
Would it be possible to increase your volume. Enjoy visiting!
Noted!