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