
#103 Dr Sarah Waters: Out of the Silent Planet and the Covid pandemic
The C.S. Lewis podcast
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Ransom and the Hunt for Harry
Lewis plays with barefaitness veiling and unveiling a lot in that text. His liminality is later emphasized when he refers to himself as an almost non-existent creature. Liminal and his inherent creatureliness dehumanized or dehumanizing himself. He distances himself from Western but also from the Western world that he inhabits. Later we see that face-to-face can be deeply dangerous in this text as well as eerie eye contact and a drink which paralyzes by sense combine.
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