XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.books.cs-lewis, rec.arts.books.childrens   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   junior-kun wrote:   
   > Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >   
   >>> To the world at large, it's an allegory.   
   >> Only to ignoramuses who are clueless about literary genres.   
   >   
   > No, pretty much everyone except C.S. Lewis fan boys seems fine with it,   
   > and Lewis's definition of allegory doesn't match the one in the   
   > dictionaries.   
      
   People who resort to desk dictionaries to define technical vocabulary   
   are hopelessly bewildered.   
      
   > You're basically screaming "Use words the way they did in the   
   > seventeenth century!"  and I'm pretty much rolling my eyes.   
      
   No, I'm saying, "In discussing literature, or any other technical field,   
   use technical terminology as it is defined by professionals in that field."   
      
   --   
   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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