Thinking of C.S. Lewis

[Pam Scruton]

No: HPFGUIDX 6694

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Christine " <chrisworm at h...> wrote:

> Just another thought on the CS Lewis thing... Doesn't pensieve and 
> Pevensie sound pretty close?!?

I think the fact that they are anagrams is probably fortuitous. It's 
a very short hop from pensive to penseive if you are someone who 
likes playing with words and puns and stuff.  Some years ago one of 
my extended family (but I can't remember who) in response to gasps 
of "It's massive" at the prospect of an enormous turnstile at some 
stately home or another, said, "Yeah - that's right - a mass-sieve.  
It's sieving the masses alright."

Last Saturday in Glasgow Jo Rowling was asked which of her inventions 
she would most like to have.   She gazed pensively down at her boots 
and then said that the pensieve would be terribly useful, she could 
really do with one of those.

Pam