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   From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   Christopher Kreuzer wrote:   
   > 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...?   
      
   It's not really an allegory. Aslan isn't a /symbol/ of Christ; within   
   the fictional story, he literally /is/ Christ.   
      
   --   
   John W. Kennedy   
   "But now is a new thing which is very old--   
   that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,   
   which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."   
      -- Charles Williams.  "Judgement at Chelmsford"   
      
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