I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.

Now, this is a scene from one of my favorite scene in all of children's literature.

And maybe one of my favorite scenes in all of literature.

And it is the delicious defense of Lucy in C.S. Lewis's The Lion, The Witch and the

Word Robe.

Now if you don't remember the book very well, you should run right out and reread it

today because it is such a very, very, very good book.

But in case you're a little rusty, the Lion, The Witch and the Word Robe is the story of

four brothers and sisters, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy.

And they're staying at an old manor house deep in the countryside because they've been

sent out of London because of the bombing blitz in World War II.

And they've been having a great time exploring the house, running all over the place.

And Lucy, who is the youngest of the four children, tells her brothers and sisters that she

had traveled through the wardrobe, which is like an armor, into the magical kingdom of

Narnia.

And she's had tea with a fawn and it's snowing there and there's a white witch.

And her brothers and sisters think that she's either lying about this magical land or

that she's going mad.

So the two oldest children, Peter and Susan, decide that they are going to go consult with

the elderly professor who owns the manor and ask him his advice about what to do about

Lucy.

And he does not respond in the way that they expect.

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