From "In Search of C S Lewis" edited by Stephen Schofield (Bridge Publishing Inc, New Jersey: Undated)
1. Stephen Scholfield (Interviewer)
Lewis ... he drank a pint of ale with lunch, and after we settled in armchairs. p. 1
2. Kenneth Tynan (Interviewer)
... the interviewer and I went to see Lewis in Headington ... "Tell me Professor Lewis, what do you think of the use of four-letter words in literature?" "Lewis answered,'I find them objectionable because they are not erotic enough'. p. 5
He never brought his religious beliefs into is literary tutorials. p. 6
3. Alan Rock (Pupil)
... he was not warm, and to be continually up against his ineluctable logic was distinctly chilling. p. 11
I never felt any warmth in my encounters with Lewis. No real human contact. p. 12
Once he said, 'Rook, you think of me as a Medievalist and a scholar. You're making a mistake. I'm nothing more than a butcher - a rough and brutal man.' Those were his words. p.13
4. Norman Bradshaw (Pupil)
... always smoking, generally a pipe. p. 18
He suffered from a bladder weakness (caused by World War 1 service at the front.) p.19
He would not, in my time, ever act as tutor to women. He seemed almost afraid of them. It was a standing joke at Magdalen that whenever he saw a woman enter the College he would run as fast as he could and lock himself in his rooms. p. 21
He liked to win. He liked to demolish an opponent's argument. ... Lewis would take up the argument and knock the other chap as flat as a house of cards ... And Lewis would sit back and take another sip of port. pp. 22-23
I know of several dons with theological degrees who denigrated Lewis because he was not a professional theologian - that is, he had no degree in theology - and yet he was becoming a household name. p. 24
... Lewis ... enjoyed beer, and who smoked a perpetual succession of pipes and 'gaspers' (Will's Gold Flake, or 'yellow perils', to be exact). p.34
... so generous and outpouring with 'fags' [cigarettes] and pipes, with beer and wine flowing ... p. 35
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This is only from the first 35 pages! The same themes come back over and over again. C S Lewis would not be accepted by most evangelicals today if they read Stephen Schofield's interviews with those who knew him "In Search Of C S Lewis".
http://www.amazon.com/Search-C-S-Lewis.../dp/088270544X He was a high Anglican who liked the "bells and smells". His favourite food was a pie and pint of beer. He smoked a pipe. He was sexist and barred Dorothy L Sayers from the Inklings merely because she was a woman. He told dirty jokes all his life. His "Liar, Lunatic, Lord' thesis does not work and does not include all alternatives.
