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I always thought that Oxford University with all it’s ancient colleges would be a place of great academic understanding.
It was the Alma Mater of some brilliant minds through history. So- in 1996, when my wife and I went to visit our sisters in the UK and Ireland, Oxford was on the Bucket List!
We found some places of great academic inspiration! Like this pub/ restaurant/ whateveryoucallit, named after the father of Psychology. A very good threshold of academic enlightenment for students, I presume?
Speaking of Oxford: I am a great C.S. Lewis fan! The Chronicles of Narnia. And his Christian books like “Mere Christianity…” I also like JRR Tolkien a lot, insidently being a student in the city where this great writer was born…
Well, they were great friends, Lewis and Tolkien. Oxford legend wants it to be that their favorite watering hole was the Bird and the Baby. So I also had to have a long, cold one at their supposedly favorite table at their supposedly favorite pub. I think a lot of ideas get their inspiration in places like these, not just the ancient lecture halls…
I would love to hear the discussions between Lewis, Tolkien and other greats around a pint in this place, but I arrived half a decade too late…
So for this week’s second contribution: The threshold of wisdom sometimes is where great minds meet to relax, and share ideas…
Spot on!! Wonderful blue color – I lived nearly 20 hears in UK and never made it to Oxford.
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daardie ou geboue praat met my, wat ‘n voorreg om so op een se drumpel te kan staan
Dis wat ek so geniet daar in die Ou Wêreld! Die geskiedenis…
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Ho ! – so you were pub-crawling for literary reasons, eh ? [grin]
Like you naughty Aussies we Saffas also get thirsty sometimes… 🙂
Your wife is a dish, btw: you must be so proud of her !
Thanks Margaret! Yes, I really love her, been married for 24 years now…
Wishing you another 48, Vosper.
Really appreciated! Thanks!
Did you do a literary pub crawl in Ireland as well? Looks like you had fun in Oxford. Have not read either C.S. Lewis or Tolkien for a long time…’The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe’ and ‘The Hobbit’ were my favorites. Master storytellers, both of these men!
Hi Jennifer, not yet. But with mt Sister in Law now an Irish citizen, we will see Ireland again. I did visit Yates’ grave near Sligo. Which Irish literarians should I not miss next visit? And any famous pubs to do a crawl in?
Yeats is the best Irish poet, in my opinion. I visited Coole Park near Clifden, where he got inspiration for “The Wild Swans at Coole”. Try O’Neills on Suffolk St (live music every night and they serve plenty of food!), Doheny & Nesbitt, The Brazen Head, McDaid’s and Oliver St. Gogarty. The last one is touristy but the atmosphere is really great–just go early!
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I love Lewis and Tolkien as well. Mere Christianity is a masterpiece. Great post!
Thanks so much!
C S Lewis was, for me, the greatest Christian writer ever…
I am also a big fan!