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Is there any significance in the way Hollies are described in Narnia?
Among the various types of trees listed in Prince Caspian when Aslan is waking the dryads and the trees are coming to life, I noticed in particular the description of the hollies:
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Is there an in-universe explanation for the contradictory language and euphemisms used in *The Screwtape Letters*?
For example, terms like "the patient," "our Father below," and Screwtape's affectionate language towards Wormwood. It actually strikes me as oddly similar to the "doublethink&...
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Significance of "further up and further in"?
In C.S. Lewis's Narnia grand finale, The Last Battle, one chapter is entitled "Further Up and Further In", and this phrase is repeated a great many times by various characters:
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