Nielsen’s Nook

Nielsen’s Nook
Nielsen’s Nook
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Landing on Malacandra

Will Nielsen
November 5th, 2007
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Suddenly the lights of the Universe seemed to be turned down. As if some demon had rubbed the heaven’s face with a dirty sponge, the splendour in which they had loved for so long blenched to a pallid, cheerless and pitiable grey. … Things do not always happen as man would expect. The moment of his arrival in an unknown world found Ransom wholly absorbed in a philosophical speculation.

In Lewis’ Out of the Silent Planet there are many passages of gusto that evoke such lucid imagery. As Ransom (the protagonist) finds himself imprisoned, approaching the planet of Malacandra, Lewis tells us of Ransom’s perception that I wanted to pass on here.

[1] C. S. Lewis. Out of the Silent Planet. (NewYork: Scribner 2003), 41.

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