James Como is a professor of rhetoric and public communication at York College of the City University of New York and a founding member (1969) of the New York C. S. Lewis Society, the oldest and still the largest of such societies. He has published “C. S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table” and Other Reminiscences and Branches to Heaven: The Geniuses of C. S. Lewis. Parts of this essay have appeared in the latter and in CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society.