"When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material world is one of almost undisguised contempt. At one point, the old professor says, "It's all in Plato' " meaning that the physical world we see around us is the crude, shabby, imperfect, second-rate copy of something much better. I want to emphasize the simple physical truth of things, the absolute primacy of the material life, rather than the spiritual or the afte"

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Philip Pullman is an English novelist best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy. His work spans fantasy, young-adult fiction, and essays on storytelling.

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