Labyrinth

Fabled impenetrable maze, built by Daedelus, housing the Minotaur. Theseus navigated it with the assistance of Ariadne and killed the Minotaur.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Controversial (charged as pornographic) 1938 novel by D. H. Lawrence.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Last Battle

The last novel to be published in C. S. Lewis' Narnia Chronicle (1956).

 

 

 

 

 

 

law of contradiction

In logic, the principle that A = B and A = not B cannot both be true.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

C. S. Lewis' last book, published posthumously in 1964.

 

 

 

 

 

 

lexicography

The research for and writing of dictionaries.

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Limbo"

Poem by Coleridge, written between 1811 and 1817.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lincolnshire

County in eastern England.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lindisfarne Association

An affiliation of scientists, artists, and intellectuals founded by William Irwin Thompson. In 1982 The Linsdisfarne Association brought Barfield to the United States to participate in a summer institute in Colorado.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

The first published (1950) and best known of C. S. Lewis' Narnia books.

 

 

 

 

 

 

London Times

The oldest and perhaps the most prestigious daily newspaper in England's capital city.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Long Crenden

Town east of Oxford where Barfield lived from 1923 to 1929, before moving to London to work in his father's law firm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lord of the Rings

J. R. R. Tolkien's trilogy (1954-55) about an epic battle between good and evil in Middle Earth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

LSD

LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide, C20H25N3O), or "acid," a  psychedelic drug which, even in minute doses, has a powerful effect on consciousness: a dose of 1/200,000 of an ounce produces effects lasting for eight to ten hours.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lyrical Ballads

1797 book of poetry by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the most important landmark of English Romanticism.