Space Trilogy Entry #2: Explaining Reality
"If the things were real, he never found any explanation of them."
Ransom is quite perplexed after his voyages and battles in Perelandra but that does not mean that the cathedral-like structure he went through was not real. Nor does a lack of explanation make it not real. Ransom's lack of understanding logically could posit that the experience was more real than anything else he has grasped in his life. C.S. Lewis's philosophy in his essay Myth Became Fact would conclude that Ransom's deep understanding of this cathedral could be rooted in the fact that he did't comprehend it logically. The fact that Ransom experienced this grand cathedral to transcendently proves that Ransom knew it better than he knew a lot of things. A common cultural standard we live in is that seeing is believing, we need some sort of proof, everything has an empirical mover, etc. Lewis through Ransom in this narrative suggests that his experience of the cathedral makes it more real to Ransom than many things.
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