The obituaries flowed like no tomorrow this week and the 60th anniversary of the assassination of the President JFK was the kickstart. Munger , Venables and Darling followed.
Per chance I walked by this Edwardian House in Headington . Oxford this evening. The home of Joy Davidman who was the wife of author C S Lewis. I recalled that Lewis that great literary hero died on the day of JFK’s assassination and in doing so missed his standing ovation. Similar to Mother Theresa dying on the day Princess Dianna passed. History can overshadow Humanity.
It was on the upper deck of a bus to Headington that in 1929 C S Lewis had a Damascus moment and came from atheist to Christian. What a journey that was no doubt on his way to see Joy who he married in 1956 aged 57 she was 41 but alas she died 4 years later. Clive Staples died from kidney failure . Not before many great books The Chronicles of Narnia and Mere Christianity just two.
I must confess that I wondered why he took 27 years to wed Joy and then surmised that he may not have been on that bus to visit Joy but was heading to Headington for Fish and Chip supper at posh fish across the road from Joy. That made sense from God to cod in one visit with Paul on the bus that fisher of men.
C S Lewis clearly liked Headington and on further research found that he was probably on his way to see Mrs Moore 27 years his elder with whom he had a relationship with of unknown sorts though they did live together with her daughter and his brother at one point before she died in 1951. An interesting Irishman who loved the works of W B Yeats and was great friends with J R R Tolkien. He taught at both Oxford and Cambridge. We miss him.
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