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Digory Kirke's Impossible Choice: Why He Chose to Trust Aslan Over the White Witch

Digory Kirke's Impossible Choice: Why He Chose to Trust Aslan Over the White Witch

Every encounter with ultimate Beauty is a call to discover a perfect world.

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Professor Digory Kirke whose house “housed” Narnia was that very Digory from The Magician’s Nephew who had to face the most difficult choice a human could face. By some twist of fate, he was holding a magical apple of eternal youth that could heal his mother in an instant. And yet, he knew that Aslan had told him not to eat it but to bring…

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