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Menu DMCA & Legal How To Read This Blog Comments Policy Search Menu DMCA & Legal How To Read This Blog Comments Policy Search Worth Pondering August 6, 2023 by David Foster CS Lewis, describing his protagonist, a sociologist, in That Hideous Strength :
..his education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than the things he saw. Statistics about agricultural labourers were the substance: any real ditcher, ploughman, or farmer’s boy, was the shadow…he had a great reluctance, in his work, to ever use such words as “man” or “woman.” He preferred to write about “vocational groups,” “elements,” “classes,” and “populations”: for, in his own way, he believed as firmly as any mystic in the superior reality of the thin