I don't think much of Pullman, for obvious reasons, but I had something to say recently about his criticism of Lewis. http://www.livejournal.com/users/fpb/138154.html#cutid1. From what you guys say, perhaps I missed something, but honestly, I cannot be bothered to look him up. Life's too short to spend ten minutes of it reading Philip Pullman.
As for the Narnia books being Mithraist, please. In case you did not know, Lewis knew a lot more Classical stuff than I do - and I know a lot. He was the kind who could compose witty, inventive letters in Latin and tease his friends in Classical Greek. If he had wanted to make a Mithraistic fable, in the way that he rewrote the story of Psyche and the return of Helen to Sparta, he would have done so. This is someone trying to be clever at the expense of the obvious - and you can never pay too much attention to the obvious.
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Date: 2005-12-02 04:40 pm (UTC)As for the Narnia books being Mithraist, please. In case you did not know, Lewis knew a lot more Classical stuff than I do - and I know a lot. He was the kind who could compose witty, inventive letters in Latin and tease his friends in Classical Greek. If he had wanted to make a Mithraistic fable, in the way that he rewrote the story of Psyche and the return of Helen to Sparta, he would have done so. This is someone trying to be clever at the expense of the obvious - and you can never pay too much attention to the obvious.