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Day 23 of 39 · January 28 · The Turn

A Walk at Oxford, 1931

A painted emblem for A Walk at Oxford, 1931.

Today

Read about the night on Addison's Walk.

September 1931. Tolkien, Lewis and Hugo Dyson walk and argue past three in the morning. Lewis says myths are lies, even though breathed through silver. Tolkien tells him no — that the dying and rising god turns up in every culture because it is the shape of the real thing. Days later Lewis is a Christian.