I would have thought that you constructed Perelandra for the didactic purpose. This is because, as you know, having got your people to this exciting country, something must happen.ĪMIS: That frequently taxes people very much.ĪLDISS: But I am surprised that you put it this way round. And then of course the story about an averted fall developed. The whole of the rest of my labours in a sense consisted of building up a world in which floating islands could exist. Perelandra, was my mental picture of the floating islands. He says so in the recorded conversation between himself, Brian Aldiss and Kingsley Amis, published under the title Unreal Estates : Zendexor : Yet however brilliantly this kind of operation is carried out, and no matter how deeply Lewis goes into the issue of the conflict between good and evil, he's on record as stating that his main motive for writing the book came from an impulse to have fun with the depiction of a world of floating islands. Harlei : I see from the example you've chosen, how "Don't tell lies" becomes somehow naturised, environmentalised. And then he releases the force with a jolt equivalent to an electric shock. He accumulates it like an electric charge: it builds up and up in his spellbinding picture of the numinous, prelapsarian environment of Venus. After all you don't need to tell a person to love the loveable or devour the delicious.Īnd as for what you should not do, it's likewise Lewis' achievement to build up the force of this implicitly, too. Zendexor : Ah, but the exhortation becomes implicit in the white heat of the awareness.
Stid : The awareness is all right what people don't want is the exhortation.
Now and then it might be a good idea to imagine what it might be like to experience successful preaching - that is, to have one's awareness really fired up by insights into good and evil. Zendexor : Which, if you think of it, ought not to be an accusation - except that, of course, by "preaching" people really mean "unsuccessful preaching". After all it's a hard topic to tackle without either being banal or incurring the accusation of "preaching".
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