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P ch 11 - if the test isn’t tempting, what is the point of testing at all? Brings to question why earth’s humans failed when Venus’s humans may not fail because of the way God set up the scenario.

P ch 10 - Akin to last chapter’s comment that older doesn’t mean wiser, stories are weaponized in the opening of The Bent One’s argumentation to create a certain image against the king. We ought to be careful why we fill our heads with

P. Ch 9- “To be older is not always to be wiser” questions the value of learning new ideas for the sake of learning them

Ch 9: dead frog “it would have been better for the whole universe to have never existed than for this to have happened” - sounds like Ivan’s argument from brothers K

Ch 5: paradisal man
Ch 6: ban on solid land related to ownership?

Perelandra - ch4 - The root of all evil is wanting to relive to good parts over and over. Like how the Hrossa are contented where humans aren’t

Perelandra - 20 top - Eldila influencing our minds. Akin to an argument Lewis makes in The Problem with Pain, where an individual cannot distinguish ones will from another unless we see differences. We cannot differentiate our will from the devil/God influencing our will in the same way we can differentiate from other humans