“I was there before the beginning, and I was there after the end.”
Is that a direct quote from something, or just a saying? I’d like to use it in a story, but not if someone else already did.
It sounds like something Aslan said in one of C.S. Lewis’s Narnia tales. But, hey, call it a Narnia allusion and Bob’s your uncle.
It doesn’t sound pompous enough for Aslan.
Hee hee hee! Good one! No, the thing I remember him saying went something like, “Oh, child, I was there before the beginning, and will be there after the end.” after being asked by one of the children if he’d ever visited Earth. I think it’s in Prince Caspian, but I’d have to check to be sure.
oh prince caspian, afloat upon the waves.
Sounds like something Kosh would’ve said on Babylon 5
I did a quick scan, but didn’t see it on first glance in Prince Caspian. Alas, you can’t grep dead trees. I’ll check more thoroughly over the weekend, and check the other books, too.
A vairation of this has been attributed to Caligula
“I was here before time began and will be here until the last star falls from the sky”
Hm. Well, I’ll check out Lewis as well over the weekend. Thank you all.
Well, I checked the first four Narnia books, but couldn’t find it, so color me wrong.
I could be wrong about this, but I think the person who said it, in whatever I heard or read, said it mournfully. I thought the narrator in The Great Gatsby might have said it, but I don’t have a copy of that around, either. Someone talking about a brief pocket of time in society, like the Jazz Age or the Summer of Love; someone who’d been part of the group before it had an agenda, and who stayed when society moved on.
BTW, Puno, which first four? The new publications have switched them around, you know; ordering them chrologically instead of the way Lewis wanted the story to develop. :mad:
I’m gonna say that if it was in any of the Narnia books it’d be in The Magician’s Nephew but, lacking as I do my copy of them, cannot check. happy hunting