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   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   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.   
      
   Welcome to the Internet.   
      
   It remains the fact that, as it happens, Lewis was the 20th century's   
   greatest expert on allegory, and knew perfectly well what he, himself,   
   meant.   
      
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   John W. Kennedy   
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   that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,   
   which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."   
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