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[Lane Haygood]

Case in point for why we should take author's self-assessment with a
grain of salt.

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:50 AM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Lane Haygood-
>> But a straight 1-for-1 substitution (a la Lewis) would have been
>> distasteful for Tolkien, who loved myths and the changes myths and
>> languages go through as cultures meet and intersect, but hated
>> allegory.
>
> Although Narnia was more tightly allusive than Middle Earth, Lewis
> emphatically rejected the label "allegory" for it. He compared it to a stew
> with lots of different familiar flavors.
>
> u+16b9
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