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. |
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. |