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Dat "Hideous Strength" was the goodest in series.
to the late CS Lewis:
Spiritual entities cannot have gender as he has explained in Perelandra. "Sex" and "gender" are indeed synonomys. Bodiless entities can't have gender; therefore, angels and demons and even God has no gender. Lewis wrote that Satan was in charge of the Silent Planet (Earth). Satan is typically considered "masculine". Earth was typically referred to as "female", so Satan should also be "feminine".In the series the being in charge of Venus was "female" and the being in charge of Mars was "male". Logically, gender only applies to biological creatures like humans.
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i think his point was that gender is an archetype - that the masculine and feminine are broader principles, particularly expressed as the male and female sex in humans. like the concept of a cat is a broad category, but it is expressed in the english language as a string of three letters.
then again it's fiction; the analogy is poetic.
and yes, that hideous strength is a great book. i just read it again recently and enjoyed it thoroughly.
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Yay, bubble trees! And waves! And the big green towering thing! This is awesome! ^_^
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hehe! another Lewisite, I see. the Space trilogy is awesome stuff. it would be so fun to try to illustrate.
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It would! Except everyone else would have completely different ideas of what most things look like.... XD
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Oh, cute dragon too XD
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You're very welcome
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