C.S.Lewis and the Doctine of the Unchanging Human Heart

[Russ Dudrey]

I think before you go off on goose-hunts you should consider who C.S.Lewis
was: an allegorical Christian writer.

Oh for God's sake, he wrote precisely one allegory in his entire career!

Yep, uh huh.
The Great Divorce was the same as The Chronicles of Narnia was the same
as The Pilgrim's Regress. Those were of course also the same as the Space
Trilogy.

In short, you haven't the faintest notion of what "allegory" means,
apart from a vague notion that it has something to do with religion.

In short, you haven't mastered basic arithmetic-- that whole (one vs.
more than one) thing.

Try actually reading Lewis. "The Pilgrim's Regress" is an allegory.
The Space Trilogy and "Narnia" are not. He complained, by the way,
about people who couldn't see that.

Try keeping up. "The Great Divorce" is.
...and both Space and Narnia remain quite allegorical.
--
Gordon
"I have just as much authority as the Pope.
I just don't have as many people who believe it."

[Russ Dudrey]

I think before you go off on goose-hunts you should consider who C.S.Lewis
was: an allegorical Christian writer.

Oh for God's sake, he wrote precisely one allegory in his entire career!

Yep, uh huh.
The Great Divorce was the same as The Chronicles of Narnia was the same
as The Pilgrim's Regress. Those were of course also the same as the Space
Trilogy.

In short, you haven't the faintest notion of what "allegory" means,
apart from a vague notion that it has something to do with religion.

In short, you haven't mastered basic arithmetic-- that whole (one vs.
more than one) thing.

Try actually reading Lewis. "The Pilgrim's Regress" is an allegory.
The Space Trilogy and "Narnia" are not. He complained, by the way,
about people who couldn't see that.

Try keeping up. "The Great Divorce" is.
...and both Space and Narnia remain quite allegorical.
--
Gordon
"I have just as much authority as the Pope.
I just don't have as many people who believe it."

[Russ Dudrey]

I think before you go off on goose-hunts you should consider who C.S.Lewis
was: an allegorical Christian writer.

Oh for God's sake, he wrote precisely one allegory in his entire career!

Yep, uh huh.
The Great Divorce was the same as The Chronicles of Narnia was the same
as The Pilgrim's Regress. Those were of course also the same as the Space
Trilogy.

In short, you haven't the faintest notion of what "allegory" means,
apart from a vague notion that it has something to do with religion.

In short, you haven't mastered basic arithmetic-- that whole (one vs.
more than one) thing.

Try actually reading Lewis. "The Pilgrim's Regress" is an allegory.
The Space Trilogy and "Narnia" are not. He complained, by the way,
about people who couldn't see that.

Try keeping up. "The Great Divorce" is.
...and both Space and Narnia remain quite allegorical.
--
Gordon
"I have just as much authority as the Pope.
I just don't have as many people who believe it."

[Steve Hayes]

On Sat, 5 Aug 2023 09:10:58 -0700 (PDT), Russ Dudrey

Try actually reading Lewis. "The Pilgrim's Regress" is an allegory.
The Space Trilogy and "Narnia" are not. He complained, by the way,
about people who couldn't see that.

Try keeping up. "The Great Divorce" is.
...and both Space and Narnia remain quite allegorical.

No, the last two are not really allegorical.

One can see parallels between Calormene supremacy in "Prince Caspian"
and White Supremacy in the USA, for example, but there isn't the kind
of one-to-one correspondence that one finds in true allegory.

The is a contrast between racism on earth and the lack of speciesism
on Malacandra, but that is even less like allegory.

C.s. Lewis as a literature professor knew what allegory was, but it
seems that most people don't.