by Steve » March 12th, 2006, 12:59 am
The thing that impressed me about Dark Tower was how the discussion of time being an area rather than just a line, fit right into the discussion of time and eternity that Sheldon Vanauken had with Lewis at the end of Severe Mercy, which has been part of my thinking ever since.
So this impressed me to think the fragment probably was by Lewis, and he never finished it because he ended up writing Perelandra and THS, which no longer left room for Dark Tower to happen in Ransom's life.
I can see some of the imagery can come across a bit creepy or even perverse, but I didn't think thats the only possible interpretation. Maybe another reason why Lewis never finished it, he understood the imagery could be badly interpreted.
Psalm 139:17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!