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   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   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.   
      
      
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