“CapnDrinian”
Now that I’ve told you who Puddleglum is, I suppose you’ll be wondering why I sign the posts from Scotland each day with the name “CapnDrinian.” That, too, has a Narnian connection. Drinian was the captain of the ship the Dawn Treader which is also the title of one of the Narnia books. Long ago when I suddenly had to come up with a screen name for my first AOL account I pulled down the Dawn Treader from my shelf, and the first name I saw was Drinian. It kind of stuck all these years. So it was natural when David signed me up for Internet Messenger that he assign me the IM name of CapnDrinian. (He’s a clever boy….) And for this trip it’s appropriate: we are “sailing” to ports never before explored by this explorer, just as the real Drinian did in the Dawn Treader.