The Child that Books Built by Francis Spufford

Author:Francis Spufford [Francis Spufford]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571266432
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2010-11-19T05:00:00+00:00

I did experiment, sometimes, with bringing Narnia back over the line into this world. I imagined dryads in the woods at Keele, smoothing out their shining hair with birch-bark combs. My friend Bernard and I swapped Narnian trivia and called ourselves Narniologists. I scattered white rose petals in the bathtub, and took a Polaroid picture of the dinghy from my Airfix model of the Golden Hind floating among them, to recreate the lily sea. But I never felt I had connected to the live thing in Narnia which could send a jolt through my nerves, except once. I had the poster-map of Narnia by Pauline Baynes up on the wall on the upstairs landing at home. In the top right-hand-corner, she’d painted Aslan’s golden face in a rosette of mane. Once, when no one was around, I crept onto the landing and kissed Aslan’s nose in experimental adoration – and then fled, quivering with excited shame, because I had brought something into the real world from story’s realm of infinite deniability.

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