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   From: news@pointerstop.ca   
      
   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.   
   >   
   > I did not suggest or imply that it was an allegory, and your inference is   
   > mistaken.   
   >   
   > Perhaps the word "allegory" should be banned, since so many people seem to   
   > mkisuse it.   
      
   Hey, I know what an allegory is - it's generally a nude or nearly nude   
   female.  A shorn lion is close enough for me.   
      
   Aslan is NOT Christ.  That's on a par with the Protestant discomfort over   
   transubstantiation.   
   --   
   derek   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)