Dave L Wrote:
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> Before you start waxing lyrical about Lewis and
> criticising Pullman (have you ever read his books?
> - thought not) or throwing yourself onto the
> latest christianite bandwagon to nowhere....
>
> Check out Lewis's other work - somewhat demented
> really:
>
> "The time was ripe. From the point of view which
> is accepted in Hell, the whole history of our
> Earth had led up to this moment. There was now at
> last a real chance for fallen Man to shake off
> that limitation of his powers which mercy had
> imposed upon him as a protection from the full
> results of his fall. If this succeeded, Hell would
> be at last incarnate. Bad men, while still in the
> body, still crawling on this little globe, would
> enter that state which, heretofore, they had
> entered only after death, would have the
> diuturnity and power of evil spirits. Nature, all
> over the globe [...] would become their slave; and
> of that dominion no end, before the end of time
> itself, could be certainly foreseen."
>
> That Hideous Strength:

I also like 'That Hideous Strength'. I guess religious language and imagery
really don't bother me.