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Stephen Cairns, jr.
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Orthodoxy
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In a thrilling novel (that purely Christian product) the hero is not eaten by cannibals; but it is essential to the existence of the thrill that he might be eaten by cannibals. The hero must (so to speak) be an eatable hero.
“They were brought to Fangorn, and their coming was like the falling of small stones that starts an avalanche in the mountains. Even as we talk here, I hear the first rumblings.”
― The Two Towers
― The Two Towers
“You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.”
― The Machine Stops
― The Machine Stops
“I want to see you not through the machine,' said Kuno. 'I want to speak to you not through the wearisome machine.”
― The Machine Stops
― The Machine Stops
“We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. It was robbed us of the sense of space and of the sense of touch, it has blurred every human relation and narrowed down love to a carnal act, it has paralysed our bodies and our wills, and now it compels us to worship it.”
― The Machine Stops
― The Machine Stops
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