I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the sorts of people who congratulate themselves on being the far-sighted ones who “make the tough choices” and know that “If you want to make an omelet you have to be willing to break a few eggs.“ C. S. Lewis had this sort of person nailed in his depiction of Queen Jadis in The Magician’s Nephew (from The Chronicles of Narnia). In this passage, she has just told the story of how she killed everyone but herself with a magic, “The Deplorable Word”: “Then I spoke the Deplorable Word. A moment later I … Continue reading C. S. Lewis on Reasons of State