And I think that it's pretty obvious, both here and at the end of LWW, that that's the assumption that Lewis is working off of, and thus for him there's no cruelty in either ending, and the Pevensies would have no problem with being called back and forth, because they always know which world is more real. I can't really accept that on an emotional level anymore, but I don't think it ever gave Lewis any trouble.
I think this is the main reason why finding out about the books' Christian allegory was such a cruel betrayal for me, and why I've never been able to reread them since: it told me that Narnia was realer to me than it had ever been to Lewis. And once I'd seen that, I couldn't unsee it; it really is all over the text.
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Date: 2011-01-24 22:10 (UTC)I think this is the main reason why finding out about the books' Christian allegory was such a cruel betrayal for me, and why I've never been able to reread them since: it told me that Narnia was realer to me than it had ever been to Lewis. And once I'd seen that, I couldn't unsee it; it really is all over the text.