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Cavor in the Fields of Arbol

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Cavor in the Fields of Arbol

Postby The Pfifltrigg » November 28th, 2006, 3:51 pm

False ideas may be refuted indeed by argument, but by true ideas alone are they expelled. — Apologia Pro Vita Sua: Cardinal Newman
Freedom lost and then regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never in danger. — Cicero
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. — Ray Bradbury
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Postby Sven » November 28th, 2006, 8:55 pm

Welles did have a cameo in That Hideous Strength, as N.I.C.E.'s figurehead Director, Horace Jules, and N.I.C.E. is a caricature of the Fabian Society.
Rat! he found breath to whisper, shaking. Are you afraid?
Afraid? murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love.
Afraid! Of Him? O, never, never! And yet -- and yet -- O, Mole, I am afraid!
Then the two animals, crouching to the earth, bowed their heads and did worship.
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Lewis did acknowledge the resemblance

Postby Friend » November 29th, 2006, 4:57 am

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Postby Stanley Anderson » November 30th, 2006, 9:09 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Postby Dale Nelson » December 3rd, 2006, 7:46 pm

The influence of Wells on Lewis's science fiction is incontrovertible. I think that he probably was an important influence on some of Tolkien's writing, too! The hints about the making of Orcs remind me of Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau.
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Postby The Pfifltrigg » December 4th, 2006, 4:22 pm

False ideas may be refuted indeed by argument, but by true ideas alone are they expelled. — Apologia Pro Vita Sua: Cardinal Newman
Freedom lost and then regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never in danger. — Cicero
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. — Ray Bradbury
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Postby Dale Nelson » December 4th, 2006, 4:41 pm

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Triples

Postby alliebath » January 15th, 2007, 4:33 pm

The three divisions of society—on Malacandra, three separate species—also reflects the nature of classical ‘Indo-Aryan’ society: priest (brāhman = Latin flumen), warrior (kshatriya), worker (vaísya). This is also found in the TV series Babylon 5, in the Minbarri Grey Council, where there are three members of the priestly class, and three of the warrior class, and three of the workers. On Malacandra it is scholar (sorn), poet (hross) and craftsman (pfifltriggi).
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