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Since I am currently reading Alan Jacobs' The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis (as I mentioned before), I enjoyed watching and listening to Jacobs discuss his book at the Cambridge Forum. In his brief talk (followed by a Q&A), he mentioned the impact Lewis had on one of his students, Kenneth Tynan, who would go on to excel as a dramatist, a screenwriter, a critic, an essayist, a director, and a theatrical impresario, a man given to "pushing boundaries" (he was the director of the first all-nude musical, "Oh Calcutta!"). His "peacockish" (Jacobs' term) flamboyance might lead us to suppose his relationship with Lewis would be rocky, but it wasn't. Tynan struggled
with lung problems and came to Lewis, his tutor, in 1948 in a desperate state. Tynan later wrote, "I had entered the room suicidal, I left exhilarated."
Jacobs doubts whether Tynan ever became a Christian (he died in 1980 at age 53), yet
"In the last decade of his life he would return again and again to Lewis's writings, and the tone in which he speaks of them suggests not a mind convinced by argument but a spirit deeply attracted by a vision of the life that is best for people to live."
Tynan picked up Lewis's That Hideous Strength and wrote, "How thrilling he makes goodness seem--how tangible and radiant!" [I very much like that way of putting it.] Tynan said "C.S.L. works as potently as ever on my imagination."
Austin Farrer preached the homily at Lewis's funeral. Most readers will resonate to the words Farrer used to speak of Lewis:
"But his real power was not proof; it was depiction. There lived in his writings a Christian universe that could be both thought and felt, in which he was at home and in which he made his reader at home."