#EDWARD TURKISH DELIGHT NARNIA FREE#
Female friendship, with its additional charge of possible subversion – a world free from male control – is densely suggestive, whether it appears to be … or whether it masquerades as something more straightforward. At the Guardian, Alex Clark has a lovely take on literary female friendships:įriendship, in literature as in life, is a dizzyingly various prospect and it tells us things about ourselves that we may not want to know.Edmund isn’t just asking the witch for candy, he’s essentially asking her for Christmas, too. When the White Witch asks Edmund what he’d like best to eat, it’s entirely possible that Lewis was answering for him: the candy that would be most difficult and expensive to obtain. Luckily, JStor is here to explain that choice for us, including why Turkish d elight seemed so luxurious and appealing to C.S. There’s no possible way I am the only Narnia-addicted child who, upon trying Turkish delight for the first time, thought that if Edmund was going to betray Jesus for candy, he really should have held out for chocolate.And to keep you occupied, here’s the best the internet has to offer on books and related subjects for the week of August 8, 2016: Find an air-conditioned room or, failing that, a large bucket of ice water, and sit in there forever. It is disgustingly hot in New York this weekend.