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   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On 22 Jan 2006 13:10:07 -0800, "junior-kun"  wrote:   
      
   >   
   >Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >> On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:57:03 GMT, "Christopher Kreuzer"   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> >Steve Hayes  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> >> 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?   
   >>   
   >> No, NOT an allegory!   
   >>   
   >> Please, people, learn what an allegory is and what an allegory is not.   
   >>   
   >   
   >The 'not an allegory' thing seems to be a position taken by diehard   
   >C.S. Lewis fans, because he said so.   
   >   
   >To the world at large, it's an allegory.   
      
   Only to ignoramuses who are clueless about literary genres.   
      
      
      
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