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   From: commodorejohn@gmail.com   
      
   On Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:12:04 +0200   
   Steve Hayes  wrote:   
      
   > It's the one I like least of Lewis's "space trilogy", but it has some   
   > interesting stuff on the banality of evil.   
      
   Yeah, that stuck with me even as an adolescent. It's become a common   
   point of reference in our household over the last decade, as we see one   
   example after another of how the villains we're facing on the home   
   front aren't the swaggering, operatic characters popular culture taught   
   us to expect, but just grotesque, petty creeps operating at scale...   
      
   > If you want to know more about that, see here:   
   >   
   >    
      
   Thanks for sharing.   
      
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