Reading Pop-Up: Perelandra

Reading Perelandra by C. S. Lewis and enjoying an evening discussion.

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What a piece of work man is” quips Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Our twofold nature confounds the Danish prince, for we are a paradox both “infinite in faculty” and the “quintessence of dust.” One name for the puzzle that stumped Hamlet is philosophical anthropology, literally the study of man. And this study is so puzzling in part because it is so close at hand, like trying to spot your own nose when looking out through your own eyes. A virtue of science fiction is that, through its utterly alien setting, things too familiar to recognize are juxtaposed into clarity.

C. S. Lewis’s second novel in his Cosmic Trilogy is one such exercise in the alien illuminating the familiar. Join us as we follow Dr. Ransom’s journey through a paradise not quite lost and try to figure out what…