Malcolm, Thank you for sharing this lovely passage from a book I loved when I was a boy. On Monday I go in for a surgery to remove a rather nasty brain tumor. If all goes well I will be better than ok, but there are always risks. Should I pass beyond Tolkien's "grey rain curtain" or past Lewis' "Wave at the end of the World" know that discovering your channel and your musings on poetry have been a chief source of Joy these past few months. I hope that if I do pass, I can share Reepicheep's trembling joy and say with Theoden King, "I go to my fathers, in whose mighty company I shall not now feel ashamed" To anyone who reads this and prays to our Mighty God and Savior Jesus Christ please pray for me.
The peace of the Lord Jesus be with you. You just have to relinquish all control as you go through this, David, and look forward to the sweetness and surprise of waking afterwards!
Excellent read! Thank you, Malcom. The Narnia collections are my favorite. I have read The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe once a year for decades now. I never grow tired of that story. GOD bless you. ~ Debbie
Thank the Lord for writers like Lewis to write such prose. But also, thank the Lord for people like you and like the person who pointed this out about the man, to help us see new beauty in the prose we had already enjoyed. It’s similar to when you have read a scripture your whole life and it is beautiful, and then one day you have matured enough that the spirit reveals a new angle of beauty in the verse you have read 100 times!
I know exactly what Lucy meant by a joyful music to break your heart. I'm not one who normally weeps at a story, but it reminds me of the passage near the end of the Lord of the Rings, "'A great shadow has passed,' said Gandalf, and then he laughed, and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count. It fell upon his ears like the echo of all the joys he had ever known. But he himself burst into tears. Then, as a sweet rain will pass down a wind of spring and the sun will shine out the clearer, his tears ceased, and his laughter welled up..." This passage gets me every time.
I read the Narnia books right in the middle of my reversion back to Christianity. They were instrumental in the readying of my heart and mind for a deeper acceptance of Christ as Lord. Thank you for taking me back as if to the moment I first read that passage. Then, as now, I am gifted by tears and, as Lucy said, I am left heart broken. Thank you, Malcolm, for your ardent love of literature. The gifts which God has given you to both write and share beauty are doing good things. God bless you!
These videos are brilliant. I’d love to spend an afternoon in this study looking through the books, smoking a pipe, and sipping bourbon. What a delight!!!
I love this scene. Always reminds me of the old Celtic saints who would venture forth in their rudderless coracles, taken wherever the waves and the will of God takes them, to the "place of their resurrection".
I must just say, as a filmmaker, the quiet popping of your pipe there was a delicious sound. People upload all manner of videos with ambient sounds to relax or fall to sleep to but I have yet to come across one featuring the puffing pipe smoker's ambience... were you to make it, I believe it might very well go viral! 😉
It seems that Lewis described Aslan's country according to his own deepest longings. The endlessly rising mountains which in Pilgrim's Regress are the heights of reason are not now harsh or icy, but full of green forests and waterfalls which represent sublimity and imagination and sensuality. The perfection of truth and meaning.
My favourite is 'The Horse and His Boy' because it's somehow the most intimate of them all. Only few characters throughout the story. They are all great of course. "Why," said I, "was it so sad?" "Sad!! No," said Lucy.
You should do a podcast and recap your stories. I love watching your videos. You remind me of my Welsh Grandfather and my uncle. Dear missed but you with your tales and faith have filled that void.
Just recently found you. Can't express the sense of reprieve in finding someone with both knowledge of and appreciation for the art of words well strung. I've also been enjoying perusing some of your older content. Thank you.
Malcolm , since my wife Linda shared your verses with me God has begun to pull back the curtain to reveal so many other of your brother poets . Since that moment m they continue to knock on my door with increasing regularity to my great surprise and joy … Kevin Clements
My favorite novel, I was lucky enough to find an original hard copy as a child in a box of books being given away at my school library. I absolutely loved the illustrations, they really made the book come to life. Also, I never really understood what Reep's final voyage meant but I remember there was a reverance in this last chapter for me.
Malcolm, thank you for this. It does my heart such good, friend. Bless you, and bless our brother Stan. How I look forward to seeing him in Aslan's Country, and hearing his booming voice again, all mended and whole.
Thank you for such masterful reading. I'm humbled by these words and now have to read the Chronicles in print to feel this beauty first hand. Yes it did make me feel my faith too when I listen to you read this excerpt, for this I thank you again Malcolm
Thank you, brother! I was born in 1950 and grew up with these books because my lovely Mother took me to our local public library where I found them. I didn't understand anything but the fun and longing. All of this was the Lord's leading.
Wonderful and very poignant as I just found out my favourite uncle died last week. He had a good innings at 97, and now he’s with my dad, his beloved wife and my other uncle, safe in Asland’s country. He served in the Merchant Navy during WW2 moving goods across the North Atlantic, ducking and diving to avoid the U-Boats His ship was once ice bound in Montréal where I now live. What a coincidence. Many thanks for posting.
Always a delight to spend time just enjoying your company with such wonderful readings. You are an inspiration, dear sir! May the Lord bless you and yours! Thank you 😊 ❤
Thank you, Malcolm. This brought back the memory of how I felt reading this the first time - every time, really - but especially the first. God bless you.
Thank you, Malcolm, for reading this lovely passage. Memory offers up a certain line from the Book of Common Prayer that speaks of a sure and certain hope.
Malcolm are you familiar with the idea of Lewis being a Rosicrucian--the truly ancient form of Christianity which concerns the souls rebinding to the Word within--coupling with your opposite energy within to achieve singular energy and rise like the fleur de lis.
@@MalcolmGuitespell Thank you for Williams, yes co-inherence is something I share with him: seeing the beloved through the eyes of God. Amazing how few people understand this notion--like Bernard of Clairvaux, who sought God above all and in all and hoped to help all to experience that rarified moment. The Holy Royal Arch Degree is knowing God without difference. I almost got Russell Crowe to play Major General William Howe (in Taking Command link on my u tube site) who knew a thing or two about this and helped my America to become.
seeing someone smoking a pipe today makes me wonder how good it feels, especially considering the newer methods of nicotine delievery, ie vaping being so much more superior and of course less harmful
Malcolm, Thank you for sharing this lovely passage from a book I loved when I was a boy. On Monday I go in for a surgery to remove a rather nasty brain tumor. If all goes well I will be better than ok, but there are always risks. Should I pass beyond Tolkien's "grey rain curtain" or past Lewis' "Wave at the end of the World" know that discovering your channel and your musings on poetry have been a chief source of Joy these past few months. I hope that if I do pass, I can share Reepicheep's trembling joy and say with Theoden King, "I go to my fathers, in whose mighty company I shall not now feel ashamed"
To anyone who reads this and prays to our Mighty God and Savior Jesus Christ please pray for me.
Lord, in Your Mercy, hear our prayer.
I am praying
Death is the opposite of Birth. Life has no opposite.
You are and will be in my prayers David. So glad I came upon this beautiful reading and your comment. God bless and keep you in His everlasting arms.
The peace of the Lord Jesus be with you. You just have to relinquish all control as you go through this, David, and look forward to the sweetness and surprise of waking afterwards!
Excellent read! Thank you, Malcom. The Narnia collections are my favorite. I have read The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe once a year for decades now. I never grow tired of that story. GOD bless you. ~ Debbie
Thank you sir, for the videos. They are very enjoyable. God be with you Mr. Guite.
Superbly read. Love the pipe, tweeds and study. Part of a long line of Anglican literary parsons.
Thank the Lord for writers like Lewis to write such prose. But also, thank the Lord for people like you and like the person who pointed this out about the man, to help us see new beauty in the prose we had already enjoyed. It’s similar to when you have read a scripture your whole life and it is beautiful, and then one day you have matured enough that the spirit reveals a new angle of beauty in the verse you have read 100 times!
I know exactly what Lucy meant by a joyful music to break your heart. I'm not one who normally weeps at a story, but it reminds me of the passage near the end of the Lord of the Rings, "'A great shadow has passed,' said Gandalf, and then he laughed, and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count. It fell upon his ears like the echo of all the joys he had ever known. But he himself burst into tears. Then, as a sweet rain will pass down a wind of spring and the sun will shine out the clearer, his tears ceased, and his laughter welled up..." This passage gets me every time.
yes, its one of the great moments in that book. Eucatastrophe as Tolkien says in his essay on Fairy Stories
I read the Narnia books right in the middle of my reversion back to Christianity. They were instrumental in the readying of my heart and mind for a deeper acceptance of Christ as Lord.
Thank you for taking me back as if to the moment I first read that passage. Then, as now, I am gifted by tears and, as Lucy said, I am left heart broken.
Thank you, Malcolm, for your ardent love of literature. The gifts which God has given you to both write and share beauty are doing good things. God bless you!
I'm 70 years old now....time to revisit Narnia for myself...when I part with this world, I hope to do so as gloriously as Reepacheep.
I love the Narnia books! The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe is my favourite, but I really like the character of Puddleglum in The Silver Chair.
These videos are brilliant. I’d love to spend an afternoon in this study looking through the books, smoking a pipe, and sipping bourbon. What a delight!!!
I love this scene. Always reminds me of the old Celtic saints who would venture forth in their rudderless coracles, taken wherever the waves and the will of God takes them, to the "place of their resurrection".
Just when he is about to read .. a subtle and beautiful Ring of smoke comes out from the wizard. Magical. 🧙♂ 04:11
I must just say, as a filmmaker, the quiet popping of your pipe there was a delicious sound. People upload all manner of videos with ambient sounds to relax or fall to sleep to but I have yet to come across one featuring the puffing pipe smoker's ambience... were you to make it, I believe it might very well go viral! 😉
It seems that Lewis described Aslan's country according to his own deepest longings. The endlessly rising mountains which in Pilgrim's Regress are the heights of reason are not now harsh or icy, but full of green forests and waterfalls which represent sublimity and imagination and sensuality. The perfection of truth and meaning.
My favourite is 'The Horse and His Boy' because it's somehow the most intimate of them all. Only few characters throughout the story.
They are all great of course.
"Why," said I, "was it so sad?"
"Sad!! No," said Lucy.
Thank you for your videos
My all time favorite passage in all the Chronicles!🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻. Thank you Malcolm for this wonderful reading. Someday… to Aslan’s Land🙏🙏🙏
You should do a podcast and recap your stories. I love watching your videos. You remind me of my Welsh Grandfather and my uncle. Dear missed but you with your tales and faith have filled that void.
A wonderful way for me to start my day. Thank you
Such beautiful prose and so tenderly read thank you Malcolm❤
Wonderful reading voice. You should do audio books of the entire series.
Just recently found you. Can't express the sense of reprieve in finding someone with both knowledge of and appreciation for the art of words well strung. I've also been enjoying perusing some of your older content. Thank you.
The warrior laying aside the sword, for there is no need for swords in Aslan’s Country, that gets me every time. Pax Christi.
It's all about hope and happiness. Thank you, I enjoyed that reading very much.
Good Morning 😊 Awesome video👌🏽Always a pleasure to see you and share a pipe 🌬💨💨 Have a fabulous weekend & Greetings from South Africa 🇿🇦
Malcolm , since my wife Linda shared your verses with me God has begun to pull back the curtain to reveal so many other of your brother poets . Since that moment m they continue to knock on my door with increasing regularity to my great surprise and joy … Kevin Clements
first view!! Love your videos Malcom. Thank you
Thanks for watching!
"... trying to be sad for their sakes".
Lovely. Lovely. Lovely. 🙏
Lovely! Thank you for sharing your deep love for Lewis.
My favorite novel, I was lucky enough to find an original hard copy as a child in a box of books being given away at my school library. I absolutely loved the illustrations, they really made the book come to life. Also, I never really understood what Reep's final voyage meant but I remember there was a reverance in this last chapter for me.
Malcolm, thank you for this. It does my heart such good, friend. Bless you, and bless our brother Stan. How I look forward to seeing him in Aslan's Country, and hearing his booming voice again, all mended and whole.
Please continue to create this excellent, inspirational content.
Happy Eve of St. Agnes!
Thank you.
Great info and relaxing presentation! You’re a real old-school British type guy, which this world needs more of.
Thank you for such masterful reading. I'm humbled by these words and now have to read the Chronicles in print to feel this beauty first hand. Yes it did make me feel my faith too when I listen to you read this excerpt, for this I thank you again Malcolm
You are so welcome
Brilliant writing. Excellent reading. What a double-blessing from Adonai you both are! Cheers!
Excellent reading Malcolm. Thinking about Stan in this moment.
Second view. I also love them. Keep them coming.
Thanks! Will do!
What a moving tale and profound tribute! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for today's video Malcolm. Wonderful way to spend my Saturday morning. Best wishes to you from snowy Maine.
Well read, Malcolm. Would that I, too, would quiver with excitement when I am about to enter into Aslan’s country. ❤️💙
Thank you, brother! I was born in 1950 and grew up with these books because my lovely Mother took me to our local public library where I found them. I didn't understand anything but the fun and longing. All of this was the Lord's leading.
Wonderful and very poignant as I just found out my favourite uncle died last week. He had a good innings at 97, and now he’s with my dad, his beloved wife and my other uncle, safe in Asland’s country. He served in the Merchant Navy during WW2 moving goods across the North Atlantic, ducking and diving to avoid the U-Boats His ship was once ice bound in Montréal where I now live. What a coincidence. Many thanks for posting.
I am sure he is smiling in Asland's country we will meet again
Thank you professor from Italy! Davide
It was a difficult day on the Bavarian plain, but your reading makes me look up, and know there are mountains yet beyond my ken.
I love C.S Lewis one of the greatest authors to ever walk the earth. Enjoying your channel have a blessed day.
‘Further up, and further in…!”
Always a delight to spend time just enjoying your company with such wonderful readings. You are an inspiration, dear sir! May the Lord bless you and yours! Thank you 😊 ❤
Same to you!
Splendid dear Malcom. Thank you 🙏. Kindest regards, S.
Thanks for your wonderful videos, Sir!
Because of you sir, I am currently reading The Hobbit... thank you 🙏
Voyage of the Dawn Treader was easily, my favourite of the Narnia series as well.❤
One of my favorite sections of one of my favorite books. Thank you for blessing us all.
Many thanks for the visit. I needed it so greatly this evening.
Wonderful.
Thank you, Malcolm. This brought back the memory of how I felt reading this the first time - every time, really - but especially the first. God bless you.
Wonderful!
Very moving
Further up, and further in.
Where the water becomes sweet, lovely reading Malcom!
Fantastic!
Lovely.
Love your reading as always. At age 75, you have influenced me to (try) to write poetry. Of course, with my Parker Sonnet and Peterson pipe.
the very same that I use!
Just another wonder of Lewis. Thank God indeed, for his writing.
Royce here. January 21. Malcolm, enjoyed your reading. Reepicheep, what a trooper to emulate!
Our Mutual friend....Jerry!
Best. R.
Thank you! 🥹 God bless and keep you!
Just beautiful. Thank you for sharing. I am so happy to have discovered this little corner of TH-cam.
Beautiful reading
love this channel. thank you.
Glad you enjoy it!
Hello again❤
Thank you, Malcolm, for reading this lovely passage. Memory offers up a certain line from the Book of Common Prayer that speaks of a sure and certain hope.
yes, that's a good link. CSL certainly knew the BCP
Excellent! Thanks for sharing sir.
Wonderful. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for listening
Lovely read and nice video, thanks for sharing Malcom.
Outstanding!
Thank you kindly!
"I shall need it no more". I daresay we would all say this of many things, were we to glimpse that far off country
Have you heard or James Mangan? I would recommend ‘Siberia’ which is about the Irish famine. Thank you for the video
We need longer reads sir.
Anyone know what Malcolm's preferred tobacco blend is? Always looking for new blends to try!
Kendal Black Cherry
Well, that was cool. Thanks Malcom ❤ I’m wondering what tobacco you were smoking.
That pipe makes an appearance quite often.
passages like that can make me straight up bawl. okay, how much do we have to crowd fund to get you to read the narnia books to us?
Is that a boss tremolo pedal on your shelf?
yes, I also play guitar
If you have more Lewis on your shelves, can we see it in a future video?? Thanks!
yes we'll certainly have some more Lewis
Joshua❤
Thanks you.. you are wise
As I don't know the significance of travelling east, could one explain this?..
to wards the rising sun represents the day of resurrection
@@MalcolmGuitespell Ah, I see. Thank you. Very well read by the way.
What Peterson model are you smoking in this video? Love your videos.
It's a Peterson "Le Strade", with a saddle mouthpiece.
I made a Malcolm guite snow man, even fashioned a pipe for him
I have photoa
I bet that it’s really cute and the people in your neighborhood must love it. Wish you could share a pic. 😊
Anyone know what make and model pipe he is smoking here?
I believe it’s a Peterson Sherlock Holmes Series Lestrade (smooth finish)… or possibly a Peterson XL02, (not sure which series).
Thank you does anyone know some nice (UK) pipe tobacco, the 'old' flavour/scent type?
It's a LeStrade
@@MalcolmGuitespell many thanks, I meant the tobacco used itself, the traditional pipe tobacco.
Thanks for your videos.
@@kevinperry2865 The brand of pipe tabacco on the shelf is Rattray's, don't know which blend it is though.
Malcolm are you familiar with the idea of Lewis being a Rosicrucian--the truly ancient form of Christianity which concerns the souls rebinding to the Word within--coupling with your opposite energy within to achieve singular energy and rise like the fleur de lis.
Lewis was definitely not a Rosicrucian but his great friend Charles Williams had links with Rosicrucian thought
@@MalcolmGuitespell Thank you for Williams, yes co-inherence is something I share with him: seeing the beloved through the eyes of God. Amazing how few people understand this notion--like Bernard of Clairvaux, who sought God above all and in all and hoped to help all to experience that rarified moment. The Holy Royal Arch Degree is knowing God without difference. I almost got Russell Crowe to play Major General William Howe (in Taking Command link on my u tube site) who knew a thing or two about this and helped my America to become.
Curious why Dawn Treader is your favourite?
seeing someone smoking a pipe today makes me wonder how good it feels, especially considering the newer methods of nicotine delievery, ie vaping being so much more superior and of course less harmful
Questionable, vaping into lungs vs tasting pipe smoke no inhale
how do you mean? oh unless you like the taste of pipe smoke yeah i can see that. @@11Bravo84
You're being sarcastic, right?
no serious, i didn't quite understand what you were saying. I know many smokers like the taste etc I was like that too @@newbeequilter