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I now move on to the most important factors to consider in evaluating my premise that C.S. Lewis might have been the most erudite person […]

The prior two posts addressed the question: What was the value of the books C.S. Lewis read? This post closes out that discussion. The first […]

This post is the second of three posts to address the question: What is the “value” (or intellectual worth) of the books that Lewis read? […]

Having established a working hypothesis on the number of books that C.S. Lewis read during his lifetime—approximately 20,000—I now move on to the second of […]

In my most recent post, I launched Part 1 of an analysis to answer the question: How many books did C.S. Lewis read in his […]

In the last post, I put forth the proposition that my analysis of C.S. Lewis’ “erudition” has five key parameters: The topic for this post […]

What is the meaning of those four red hashmarks on the Library of Congress graphic? What do they represent? That question I will answer now. […]

Yesterday, I posted a graphic with no explanation of its meaning or relevance to this evaluation of erudition. My hope was to trigger curiosity. I […]

We have begun to develop a list of additional candidates for “most erudite” including: Please note: I will not assess the qualifications or quantify the […]