His arms seemed to move quicker than his thought. His hands taught him terrible things. He felt its ribs break. He heard its jawbone crack. The whole creature seemed to be crackling and splitting under his blows. His own pains,

where it tore him, somehow failed to matter. He felt that he could so fight, so hate, with a perfect

hatred for a whole year. The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for.

This is Pints with Jack, Season 8, Episode 15.

Perilandra Chapter 12, Immortal Combat.

Welcome friends to Pints with Jack, your favourite CSOist podcast run by two Falkandrians, Andrew and David.

Matt insists on going on fun trips with his wife, so he is therefore not here.

He will therefore suffer the Roman practice of Dynastio Memori, with his name and image erased from all our

public records and condemned to oblivion. I'm sorry, who was that condemned to oblivion? I can't

seem to recall. Yes, me neither.

But this season, Andrew and I are once again following the adventures of Elwyn Ransom,

who has been exploring Peralandra and battling his nemesis Weston.

And in today's episode, the battling is getting very literal.

Ransom and Weston are finally going to get down to fisty cuffs.

Yes. Andrew, how's it going? Well, thanks for asking. Been a good week. Some good CS-Lewis projects underway. Some things I can talk about, some things I can't. Had a wonderful conversation with you

and Julianna Slager about maybe doing something

until we have faces, maybe a weekend in Chicago in 2026. We're working on the volume

Rediscovering Lewis, so we're in the final editing stage before submitting that to the publisher.

I've got another project under works that I can't quite announce yet,

but we'll be able to announce soon.

And in relation to that, Harper Collins has started a new CS-Lewis substack,

and there are 7,000 subscribers already,

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