Extrapolating a bit, admittedly boosted by my personal philosophy, perhaps Aslan and Lewis are saying that our world is just as wonderful and worthy of adventures, though they seem more mundane to us.
I'd never quite thought of it that way, but I really like your spin on it--Aslan does say in VDT that the point of Narnia is so that the Pevensies can know him in England, which sort of makes me go o_O. That said, though, I'm willing to buy that interpretation right up until TLB, which obviates it, to my mind, and I'm not sure I agree that it's what Lewis was saying, either. My estimation of him has dropped somewhat on this reread, I admit, as has my willingness to have any regard for his authorial intentions.
And then that would tie in with my theory about Susan, that her real problem was that she couldn't believe in more than one world at a time; she was too inherently pragmatic. When she was in Narnia she forgot about our world more thoroughly than the others, and when she was in our world she (forgot about/refused to remember) Narnia. Which means she couldn't apply the lessons from one to the other.
Oh, interesting! And yes, that totally makes sense to me. As my roommate has pointed out to me multiple times, she's not actually excluded in TLB because of the lipstick & nylons, though everyone immediately forgets that after it's said and conflates her disregarding Narnia with the nylons and lipstick.
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Date: 2011-02-08 19:14 (UTC)I'd never quite thought of it that way, but I really like your spin on it--Aslan does say in VDT that the point of Narnia is so that the Pevensies can know him in England, which sort of makes me go o_O. That said, though, I'm willing to buy that interpretation right up until TLB, which obviates it, to my mind, and I'm not sure I agree that it's what Lewis was saying, either. My estimation of him has dropped somewhat on this reread, I admit, as has my willingness to have any regard for his authorial intentions.
And then that would tie in with my theory about Susan, that her real problem was that she couldn't believe in more than one world at a time; she was too inherently pragmatic. When she was in Narnia she forgot about our world more thoroughly than the others, and when she was in our world she (forgot about/refused to remember) Narnia. Which means she couldn't apply the lessons from one to the other.
Oh, interesting! And yes, that totally makes sense to me. As my roommate has pointed out to me multiple times, she's not actually excluded in TLB because of the lipstick & nylons, though everyone immediately forgets that after it's said and conflates her disregarding Narnia with the nylons and lipstick.