The San Marcos Public Library is the home of a dream come true for the local bookworm that is looking to strengthen their knowledge reserves. Lifelong Learning Director Marianne Reese is currently spearheading a community lecture series that involves six unique topics on six consecutive Fridays at the San Marcos Public Library.
Dr. Steven Beebe, a distinguished professor emeritus of communication for both Texas State University and the Texas State University System at large, held a lecture called 'How to Communicate Like C.S. Lewis.' Lewis wrote a substantial number of books: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Screwtape Letters and Prince Caspian, to name a few.
Beebe said his introduction to Lewis came during a leave from work in Oxford, England when he read his biography, which was written by A.N. Wilson. Beebe studied Lewis’ unpublished manuscripts as a research process designed to get into his head by reading what had been crossed out or not included in the final books, but he found that Lewis crossed out very little. Out of that venture, he read an unpublished manuscript about communication and eventually transcribed it over several years worth of trips to the Bodleian Library; the library wouldn’t allow them to be checked out.
