On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 22:42:58 -0600, "mystique"
<mysteree@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>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.
Interesting connections. Certainly there are parallels with the
Garden of Eden, and Smoky could represent a modern version of the
serpent--not to mention one that literally has knowledge of the people
it comes into contact with.
Todd
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