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Life: The Excess of Vitality

Will Nielsen
November 15th, 2007
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While traveling back to Thulcandra, Ransom reflects:

He could not feel that they were an island of life journeying through an abyss of death. He felt almost the opposite — that life was waiting outside the little iron egg-shell in which they rode, ready at any moment to break in, and that, if it killed them, it would kill them by excess of its vitality.1

It is said that the theologians of the Anglican church are often their poets and literary personae. Lewis certainly hands us weighty allusion to Christology here.

1 Lewis, C. S. Out of the Silent Planet. (New York: Scribner, 1938), 145.

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