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In my last two posts I addressed C.S. Lewis’ powers of retention. The first post presented anecdotal evidence for his prodigious ability to retain the […]

In my most recent post, I made the case that C.S. Lewis possessed an unparalleled memory. By this I do not mean merely uncommonly good, […]

I now come to the next to last factor: C.S. Lewis’ near-perfect “retention” of everything that he ever read. Of the twelve factors that comprise […]

For this post and the two to follow, I address the question posed earlier: “How thoroughly (and accurately) did Lewis “comprehend” the author’s meaning?” I […]

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 […]