XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.books.cs-lewis, rec.arts.books.childrens   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: tsbrueni@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us   
      
   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 would happen if two people uttered the deplorable word at the same time?   
      
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