XPost: alt.usage.english, rec.arts.books, rec.arts.sf.misc   
   From: petertrei@gmail.com   
      
   On 2/4/2026 12:24 PM, John Ames wrote:   
   > On Wed, 4 Feb 2026 12:07:27 -0500   
   > Cryptoengineer  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Perelandra is a very strange book.   
   >>   
   >> The whole Space Trilogy is deeply imbued with Lewis's religous   
   >> outlook.   
   >   
   > I'd forgotten 'til revisiting it some years ago that there's a whole   
   > sequence at the end that almost plays like a Christian transcendental-   
   > meditation experience. Very strange book, indeed; captivatingly so.   
      
      
   It does. I can't remember if that's before or after all the human   
   and animal couples simultaneously decide to f*ck. (The human couples   
   do it in different rooms - they're decent Christians, after all).   
      
   pt   
      
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