by glumPuddle » June 14th, 2010, 11:54 pm
I don't think it seems like anymore of a plug than this line from VDT: "(By the way, I have never yet heard how these remote islands became attached to the crown of Narnia; if I ever do, and if the story is at all interesting, I may put it in some other book.)" Lewis, of course, never did put it in some other book. But the mention of it makes the world seem more real. It gives you the sense that Narnia is a real three-dimensional world, but we are only seeing the pieces of it that are relevant to this story.
In SC, Lewis quotes the first line of HHB: "an adventure that happened in Narnia and Calormen and the lands between, in the Golden Age when Peter was High King..." That is the opening line of HHB word-for-word. If you have already read HHB, I think that repetition is annoying. But if you read HHB after reading SC, you read that line and go "Oh, this is THAT story he mentioned!"
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