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   From: kirshenbaum@hpl.hp.com   
      
   "hschinske@mouse-potato.com"  writes:   
      
   > I think the Professor sounds like someone who *has* seen magic, but   
   > is still wonderful (and I read _The Lion, the Witch, and the   
   > Wardrobe_ over and over many times before I even knew there were any   
   > other books, so I have a pretty good impression of it on its own, if   
   > you see what I mean). I didn't feel let down at all to find out that   
   > Digory was the professor (except, of course, to wonder why he aged   
   > so quickly ...  hmmm, maybe there is an untold story there, where he   
   > went to another world where you *do* age and keep your age when you   
   > come back to ours?).   
      
   I don't think that he aged all that quickly.  _The Lion, the Witch,   
   and the Wardrobe_ took place "during the war", so about six or seven   
   years prior to publication.  _The Magician's Nephew_ took place "long   
   ago when your grandfather was a child", when "Sherlock Holmes was   
   still living in Baker Street".  So presumably around 50 years or more   
   prior, which would make him an old man in the eyes of the children.   
      
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