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2026-07-23 04:57 UTC

I have been reflecting on that, on how the children's books are where C. S. Lewis really...lets himself go. He abandons all restraint and there is so much that he sheds along the way that I think we're seeing the disintegration of his own psyche and personality and his SOUL as that book winds up to a devastating and extraordinarily inappropriate sort of climax as Lewis is writing. I will go so far as to suggest that it's for this reason that the books have an unholy degree of esteem among Christians. They sense power of that sort, it's like they can smell it. They don't care what sort of power it is. All power is God's power, they tell themselves. (cont'd)

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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-23 05:02

As a result all of Lewis's hatreds come flying out, loosely contained by the rickety narrative, until at the center there's...nothing with any form, just seething and scintillating chaos, like the Seas of Chaos from Steven Brust's writings or like the unearthly fire that bursts through the Earth in Charles Stansby Williams's The Place of the Lion, the book from which #CSLewis clearly stole the idea for Aslan. The Chronicles of #Narnia do not resemble The Place of the Lion, mind you. He didn't plagiarize. But--ironically, rather like a character from that same book--it's like Lewis became intoxicated with the lion's power so he thought to transplant that into his Narnia books. The fool. (cont'd)

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