“They say Aslan is on the move—perhaps has already landed.”

And now a very curious thing happened. None of the children knew who Aslan was any more than you do; but the moment the Beaver had spoken these words everyone felt quite different. Perhaps it has sometimes happened to you in a dream that someone says something which you don’t understand but in the dream it feels as if it has enormous meaning—either a terrifying one which turns the whole dream into a nightmare or else a lovely meaning too lovely to put into words, which makes the dream so beautiful that you remember it all your life and are always wishing you could get into that dream again. It was like that now. At the name of Aslan each one of the children felt something jump in its inside.

From The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

I’ve been spurred on to reread this wonderful book, and to actually complete The Chronicles of Narnia, due to the release of the movie next month. I never truly engaged in the books as a child, I think I was a little scared of fantasy (that’s another post altogether), but I am loving, LOVING, the books now and would curl up on the couch with a mug of hot chocolate and read all day long if I could.

Lewis’s writing style is one of the reasons these books are so delightful. I find his sentences very practical, logical like I imagine a proper Englishman’s should be, and yet so insightul. I particularly enjoyed the quoted paragraph above because it perfectly states the way I feel about dreams. I tend to intensely feel my dreams and nightmares, and yet when I awake I can’t explain the magnitude of what occurred in them. I love it that Lewis captured this universal sentiment in a few simple, well-placed words.