XPost: rec.arts.books.childrens, alt.books.cs-lewis, rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On 17 Oct 2005 21:23:58 -0700, carmen.williams@gmail.com wrote:   
      
   >   
   >Peter B. Juul wrote:   
   >> carmen.williams@gmail.com writes:   
   >>   
   >> > "The Narnia books, Pullman said, contained '...a peevish blend of   
   >> > racist, misogynistic and reactionary prejudice; but of love, of   
   >> > Christian charity, [there is] not a trace'."   
   >>   
   >> Well, at least the racism is, frankly, a reasonable claim. Read the   
   >> descriptions of the calormene. They are very much a caricature of   
   >> arabs.   
   >   
   >I should have specified that I could at least see where he was getting   
   >the first half of the sentence (although "peevish" is not an adjective   
   >it would ever have occurred to me to apply to Narnia); it was the   
   >second half that baffled me.   
      
   Pullman's statement perhaps says more about Pullman than about Lewis. It gives   
   me the impression that Pullman recognises himself in the description of the   
   unreformed Eustace Scrubb, and took the description personally, as if Lewis   
   were deliberately having a dig at him. If anything is peevish, it's Pullman's   
   response.   
      
      
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