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The Hidden Qualities of Red Skinnery
Lewis was first and foremost not a writer of fiction everybody knows him as the author of narnia or maybe scruite or mere christianity but he wasn't a writer of Fiction any more than he was a writer of christian apologetics. He had an interest in theological hiddenness, epistemological invisibleness his interest in literary hiddenness fourth fifth and finally as a literary historian Lewis noted that there was one other kind of way in which hiddenness exists in literature. The religion of poetry through which the author can express at any moment just so much or so little of his real religion as his art requires. Just as those medieval and renaissance writers transferred classical pagan gods into their
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