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   From: spamgard@blueyonder.co.uk   
      
   Steve Hayes  wrote:   
   > On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 13:28:21 GMT, "Christopher Kreuzer"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> And in any case, the history of Charn (as we are told in 'The   
   >> Magician's Nephew') shows that Jadis was battling her sister for   
   >> control of Charn, and was actually losing. So her sister probably   
   >> had more right to call herself Empress of Charn. Though in the end   
   >> Jadis could call herself Empress of Charn, it was, literally, a   
   >> rather empty gesture.   
   >   
   > A Pyrrhic victory, as it were.   
   >   
   > And one of the bits of internal evidence to indicate that the Narnia   
   > books were originally written in the Cold War period, should only a   
   > fragment containing that part of the story survive any use of the   
   > deplorable word here.   
      
   What?! A _modern_ allegory in the Narnia books? :-)   
   Surely it is a religious allegory of some sort...?   
   There must be something in the Old Testament.   
   Sodom and Gommorah?   
      
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