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"Further Up and Further In!": C.S. Lewis' Narnia in the TVCU

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To Ted Gregory Who put me on the right track more than Once.    Part one of A Sense of Place, a four part series on fictional locations.   “Further up and further in!”     Thus ended The Last Battle , the final novel in C.S. Lewis’ Narnia series. But let us backtrack. There is much untold in those books, and much more that transpired after Narnia ended and the sky came down. Let us investigate, and plumb the last few mysteries.     Unusually for the TVCU, the series’ author had a massive role in this essay. Discovered among C.S. Lewis’ papers, upon his death, was a massively detailed timeline of Narnia. This timeline forms the backbone of what you are about to read. Lewis’ entries are listed, unchanged, under the non-italicized entries. The posts offset by bold are entirely my own.     1889 (Earth time)—birth of Polly Plummer (probable birth of Digory Kirke)   ...

The Muppets and Sesame Street Revisited: A TVCU Quickie

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What's a quickie?   See this blog. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Muppets  are a group of  puppet  characters known for an absurdist,  burlesque  and  self-referential  style of  variety - sketch   comedy . Created in 1955 by  Jim Henson , they are since 2004 the namesake for the  Disney   media franchise  that encompasses films, television series, music recordings, print publications, and other media associated with  The Muppet Show  characters. Henson once stated that the term "Muppet" had been created as a  portmanteau  of the words " marionette " and " puppet ", but also claimed that it was actually a word he had coined. [1]  The Muppets debuted on the television program  Sam and Friends , which aired locally on  WRC-TV  in Washington, D.C.  from 1955 to 1961. After appearing on skits in several late night talk shows and advertising commercials duri...