The World According to Narnia
Chapter One
Reality You Could Not Have Guessed The Lion,
the Witch and the Wardrobe
"Reality," wrote C. S. Lewis, "is usually something you could not
have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It
is a religion you could not have guessed." When Lucy comes back out
of the wardrobe after her first couple of visits to Narnia, Peter
and Susan disbelieve her story because it's not something they would
have guessed. For Professor Kirke, the very unlikelihood of her
story is one of the reasons he believes it. If she were making it
up, wouldn't she have made up something more plausible? If she were
going to pretend to have been in another world for several hours,
wouldn't she have hidden in the wardrobe for more than a minute?
Surely no one so young could have invented the idea of a world where
time runs differently from time on earth.
"But do you really mean, Sir," asks Peter, "that there could be
other worlds-all over the place, just round the corner-like that?"
"Nothing is more probable," answers the professor. He speaks for
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