"mystique" <mysteree@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> When Ben said "Charlotte Lewis" I just knew her middle name would begin
> with an "S" and even better, he said her name was "Charlotte Staples
> Lewis". (I'm not positive but I think Ben said her birthday was 11/29,
> too.) Well Clive Staples Lewis is better known as CS Lewis, born
> 11/29/1898 famous for his Narnia series. But he also wrote according to
> Wikipedia:
> His Space Trilogy or Ransom Trilogy novels (also called the Cosmic
> Trilogy) dealt with what Lewis saw as the then-current dehumanizing
trends
> in modern science fiction. The first book, Out of the Silent Planet, was
> apparently written following a conversation with his friend J. R. R.
> Tolkien about these trends; Lewis agreed to write a "space travel" story
> and Tolkien a "time travel" one. Tolkien's story, "The Lost Road", a
tale
> connecting his Middle-earth mythology and the modern world, was never
> completed. Lewis's character of Ransom is based in part on Tolkien, a
fact
> that Tolkien himself alludes to in his Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien. The
> second novel, Perelandra, illustrates a new Garden of Eden, a new Adam
and
> Eve, and a new "serpent figure" to tempt them. The story illustrates a
> hypothesis of what could have happened if "our Eve" had resisted more
> firmly the temptation of the serpent. The last novel in the Trilogy also
> contains numerous references to Tolkien's fictional universe of
> Middle-earth. Many of the ideas presented in the books, particularly in
> That Hideous Strength, are dramatizations of arguments made more
formally
> in Lewis' The Abolition of Man.
>
> I'm not a literature student, so does anyone here recognize the
im****tance
> of this to the "Lost" mythology? I don't see it immediately, but there
> HAS to be some significance here.
Close. Birthdate of July 2, 1979
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