by Sven » December 3rd, 2008, 10:15 pm
I don't really know much more. Lesley Walmsley, the editor of C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces, briefly says that it is a development of a portion of the paper Is Theology Poetry?, which was read out at the Oxford Socratic Club in 1945. Lewis thought that he did a poor job in that paper, so he may have written The Funeral of a Great Myth in an attempt to improve on his 1945 effort. That's just speculation on my part.
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.