Theme Thusday -- Perelandra by C.S. Lewis

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*Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading that features the theme
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This week's theme is male person.

All things are by Him and for Him.  He utters Himself also for His own delight ans sees that He is good.  He is His own begotten and what proceeds from Him is Himself.  Blessed be He!

~page 186, Perelandra by C. S. Lewis

This is the second in Lewis' Space Trilogy.  I'm really glad to be finished with it.  It just dragged on and on for me.  I got bogged down in Lewis' long descriptions -- though I have the feeling that many sci-fi fans probably eat them up.  In addition, the theology that is a big part of the book is simply not where I'm at faith/spirituality-wise these days and I think that probably added to my dissatisfaction with Perelandra.  I'm not going to read the final book in the trilogy.

Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis

I'd never read any of C. S. Lewis' fiction for adults before picking up Out of the Silent Planet -- the first in his Space Trilogy.  Dr Elwin Ransom(modeled after Tolkien, by the way) is on a walking holiday when he is abducted by a former schoolmate and his (evil-scientist-)physicist partner and taken to the planet Malacandra.  When Ransom escapes his human captors, he has to figure out how to survive in an alien (so to speak) environment and distinguish friend from foe.  Being a lover of language and linguistics, I enjoyed watching Ransom (a philologist himself) begin to consider the way language works on Malacandra.  I will probably want to pick up the final two (Perelandra, That Hideous Strength) at some point as well.