How's this for an unwarranted hypothesis: Lewis's character Ransom in the Space Trilogy is based on Tolkien. Something about him reminds me of Tolkien. Also, his first name is Elwin (Elf-friend in English!), and in any case I seem to remember reading somewhere (I wish I remembered where) that Tolkien did in fact see himself in Ransom. ...Interesting, if irrelevant.
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"I hate dignity," cried Scraps, kicking a pebble high in the air and then trying to catch it as it fell. "Half the fools and all the wise folks are dignified, and I'm neither the one nor the other." --L. Frank Baum
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