I’m still on the C.S. Lewis kick. For whatever reason, I’ve been unable to obtain the 1993 version of Shadowlands with Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger. No Blockbuster in our area carries it and Netflix claims it can’t tell me when it will be available.

However, the 1985 version was quite good. It stars Joss Ackland and Claire Bloom. And just possibly, Ackland makes C.S. Lewis out to be just a tad more jovial than Hopkins did in the 1993 version (which I saw eons ago).

Lewis’ tale is plain bizarre. His mother dies when he is ten which makes him hate God. But he realizes, nevertheless, that there is joy in nature. So he writes Surprised By Joy which describes his conversion to Christianity (which, of course, I’ve checked out from the library and intend to read soon.)

Strange that the woman he would end up marrying in order to help get her British citizenship would be called Joy. He falls in love with her only after she contracts cancer. Surprised by Joy again, I suppose. After her death, he writes Grief Observed under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk.

According to Lewis - this world is just a Shadowland. The real world is awaiting us.