A Till We Have Faces poll

[Steve]

Within the world of Till We Have Faces, what are we supposed to believe about Psyche?

[Stanley Anderson]

[Guest]

My dilemma is otherwise.

On one hand, I admire the clarity of Lewis's thought, and his (general) economy of saying what it is he sets out to say.

On the other, this imparts a didactic hue to even his fiction, and I'm not sure I'm happy with a writer of fiction, who so relentlessly (or with scarce any relent) makes everything a symbol of some theological or philosophical point.

There's something burdensome in this, meseems; some lapse in, what I greatly enjoy in the best storytellers, the sheer joy taken in telling the tale.

(Nonetheless, I look forward to reading TWHF ... someday ....)

Pace e bene,
~Karl

[Solomons Song]

Recently finished it and I was able to maintain a intellectual connection to the book until the last chapter. Now, I do not what to think. I am beginning to think Orual was mad.

If it's possible, can someone expound the riddles of the final chapter to me? Either here, in a PM (so not to spoil it for someone who hasn't read it), or both.

[Stanley Anderson]

[Guest]

[Guest]