In article <h5Rqj.21344$OC1.12994@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
"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.
http://tinyurl.com/24k3th
Or,
http://preview.tinyurl.com/24k3th
Or,
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20177008,00.html?iid=top25-20080208-%27%2
7Lost%27%27+recap%3A+New+hostilities
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