WTF is up with that Chronicles crap? Some of my "favourite" bits:
Lewis' appetite for beer, rum and wine is visible in the fact that the characters consume them regularly in his Chronicles.
Following this hypothesis, because Agatha Christie wrote about murder, she must have been a murderer too! Jeebus. It's fiction.
A strange drink is mentioned that is not named. The "White Witch" produces it by magic for Edmund. It is described as "...very sweet and foamy and creamy, and it warmed him right down to his toes." (Alcoholic drinks are often used to warm people, but is this one or not?)
Yes, it certainly can't be hot chocolate or warm milk or cappuchino or just about anything else.
There is nothing in the books that says kids should drink alcohol. If anything, it shows other characters drinking and the kids explicitly not. All of the site author's "evidence" consists of "what if?"
The Centaurs are said the have beer as part of their breakfast. So, beer is something to drink in the morning.
Drinking beer at breakfast was done right up into the 19th century (and possibly longer, but I know for a fact in the 19th) due to bad drinking water and no pasteurization. It was healthier in most societies, not bad! Same for why they drink wine so much in medieval-y stories like Narnia.
And that was just one page. I can't even read any more because all the fucking ignorance is simply infuriating!
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
malionette
no subject
Date: 2005-03-18 07:38 pm (UTC)Lewis' appetite for beer, rum and wine is visible in the fact that the characters consume them regularly in his Chronicles.
Following this hypothesis, because Agatha Christie wrote about murder, she must have been a murderer too! Jeebus. It's fiction.
A strange drink is mentioned that is not named. The "White Witch" produces it by magic for Edmund. It is described as "...very sweet and foamy and creamy, and it warmed him right down to his toes." (Alcoholic drinks are often used to warm people, but is this one or not?)
Yes, it certainly can't be hot chocolate or warm milk or cappuchino or just about anything else.
There is nothing in the books that says kids should drink alcohol. If anything, it shows other characters drinking and the kids explicitly not. All of the site author's "evidence" consists of "what if?"
The Centaurs are said the have beer as part of their breakfast. So, beer is something to drink in the morning.
Drinking beer at breakfast was done right up into the 19th century (and possibly longer, but I know for a fact in the 19th) due to bad drinking water and no pasteurization. It was healthier in most societies, not bad! Same for why they drink wine so much in medieval-y stories like Narnia.
And that was just one page. I can't even read any more because all the fucking ignorance is simply infuriating!
no subject
Date: 2005-03-18 09:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-18 11:02 pm (UTC)