XPost: alt.religion.christian.episcopal, rec.arts.movies.current-films   
   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 17:39:12 -0500, George Peatty   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 17:18:44 GMT, Hugh Beyer  wrote:   
   >   
   >>Not any Lewis scholars worth listening to. Lewis himself said in so many   
   >>words it's NOT an allegory.   
   >   
   >I'd very much like to see a cite for this ..  Not saying I disbelieve you,   
   >just asking for chapter and verse, as it were ..   
      
   OK, here it is.   
      
   C.S. Lewis and allegory.   
            Source: Carpenter 1978:30.   
       Lewis wrote to Tolkien on 7 December 1929, after reading   
     Tolkien's poem on Beren and Luthien, "The two things that come   
     out clearly are the sense of reality in the background and the   
     mythical value: the essence of a myth being that it should   
     have no taint of allegory to the maker and yet should suggest   
     incipient allegories to the reader."   
      
      
   --   
   Steve Hayes   
   Web: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm   
      
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