in which i attempt to connect two seemingly unrelated works of literature.

"Men like me, who possess hidden wisdom, are freed from common rules just as we are cut off from common pleasures. Ours, my boy, is a high and lonely destiny."

--Uncle Andrew, The Magician's Nephew

“In my opinion, if, as the result of certain combinations, Kepler's or Newton's discoveries could become known to people in no other way than by sacrificing the lives of one, or ten, or a hundred or more people who were hindering the discovery, or standing as an obstacle in its path, then Newton would have the right, and it would even be his duty... to remove those ten or a hundred people, in order to make his discoveries known to mankind. It by no means follows from this, incidentally, that Newton should have the right to kill anyone he pleases, whomever happens along, or to steal from the market every day. Further, I recall developing in my article the idea that all... well, let's say, the lawgivers and founders of mankind, starting from the most ancient and going on to the Lycurguses, the Solons, the Muhammads, the Napoleons, and so forth, that all of them to a man were criminals, from the fact alone that in giving a new law, they thereby violated the old one, held sacred by society and passed down from their fathers, and they certainly did not stop at shedding blood either, if it happened that blood (sometimes quite innocent and shed valiantly for the ancient law) could help them.” 

--Raskolnikov, Crime and Punishment 

a roaring lion, a white witch, and a simply enormous wardrobe

Quoted: 

“He'll be coming and going. One day you'll see him and another you won't.” 

“Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.”  

“If things are real, they're there all the time.” 

“Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad.”  

“In our adversity, God shouts to us.” 

“Once a kind or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen...”  

“All names will soon be restored to their proper owners.” 

“If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream.”  

“If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.” 

"All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.” 

drinkable light

“Another thing was the light. There was too much of it. The sun when it came up each morning looked twice, if not three times, its usual size.”

“And every morning  (which gave Lucy the strangest feeling of all) the huge white birds, singing their song with human voices in a language no one knew, streamed overhead and vanished astern.”

“She could even see the shafts of sunlight falling through the deep water onto the wooded valley—and, in the extreme distance, everything melting into a dim greenness. But some places—the sunny ones, she thought—were ultramarine blue.” 

 

 

“’I tell you the water’s sweet,’ said the Mouse. “Sweet, fresh. It isn’t salt.” 

“’Sire,’ said Drinian, ‘I see whiteness. All along the horizon from north to south, as far as my eyes can reach…’Lilies, your Majesty!”

“And of course, as it always does in a perfectly flat place without trees, it looked as if the sky came down to meet the grass in front of them. But as they went on they got the strangest impression that here at last the sky did really come down and join the earth…more like glass than anything else.”

 

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{Aslan's country, described in Voyage of the Dawn Treader}