He was riding the foamless swell of an ocean, fresh and cool after the first temperatures

of heaven, but warm by earthly standards, as warm as a shallow bay with sandy bottom in a subtropical

climate. As he rushed smoothly up the great convex hillside of the next wave, he caught a mouthful of the water.

It was hardly at all flavored with salt, it was drinkable, like fresh water, and only, by

an infinitesimal degree, less insipid.

Though he had not been aware of thirst till now, his drink gave him a quite astonishing pleasure.

It was almost like meeting pleasure itself for the first time.

This is Pints with Jack, season 8, episode 25.

Heralandra, retrospective.

Welcome friends to Pints with Jack, your favorite C Lois podcast run by three Thulcandrians.

In the opening to this episode, you heard C.S. Lewis himself reading the section of Perilandra

where Ransom arrives on the planet. And this is a special treat because we have now

completed all of our Paralyandra-related episodes, and so all of the co-hosts have

returned to come together and have a little bit of a retrospective on the book. Gentlemen,

welcome back. What have you been up to since we last recorded together? Let me guess, Matt has

been building a business with AI. Yeah, I feel single people, well, at least people without kids were meant to be more interesting,

but that's just been his answer for months now.

Oh, and let me guess, Andrew, there's a new CS Lewis conference you're going to go to

or a new scholar you've chatted with or the book you're working on or some new first edition to advertise.

All of the above.

You got it.

And then let's see, what do we think David's been doing, Matt?

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