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When Caspian finally meets the Old Narnians, he tells them, "I want to stay with you—if you'll let me. I've been looking for people like you all my life." In a similar vein Lewis rejoiced in the discovery that his earlier longing had been "a pointer to something other and outer," that the Easter tale of the God who becomes man and dies actually happened "at a particular date, in a particular place, and was followed by definable historical consequences."

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Devin Brown is a Lilly Scholar and a Professor of English at Asbury College, where he teaches a class on C. S Lewis . He is the author of Inside Narnia (Baker 2005) and Inside Prince Caspian (Baker 2008). This summer he will serve as Scholar-in-Residence at The Kilns, Lewis's home in Oxford. Brown, who lives in Lexington, Kentucky with his wife Sharon and Mr. Fluff, their 15-pound cat, also wrote "My Caspian Wish List" for CT Movies.

Caspian images from Walt Disney Pictures

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