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Argus

**Argus** was an entity, a Hnau, or even one of the Eldila who is mentioned in *That Hideous Strength*.

## History

At some point prior to the end of the siege of Earth, Argus found themself in a conflict with the Oyarsa of Viritrilbia, who ended up slaying them. This deed was later remembered when the Eldila descended to the Blue Room of the Manor at St. Anne's on the Hill on Earth.

## Inspiration

Due to the fact that Viritrilbia is Mercury and Mercury is the Roman name of the Greek god Hermes, it is probable that Argus may be a reference to Argus Panoptes, a many-eyes giant who Hermes fought and defeated.

## Non-canon

According to one non-canonical source, Argus was the shortened form of the name **Argusandra**, who named the planet Neruval or Pluto after himself in Old Solar. He had a son named Emanator, who was a Master Green mage. Argusandra was a powerful Master Blue mage who held the power of reflection, which created "*a distortion in space such that all travel across a particular plane is reversed, intluding teleportation and psychic attacks*" at the cost of ten seconds. "*At the age of 42, when his power was at its peak, he traveled to an uncontrolled world and set himself up as Oyarsa of that world, adding the requisite suffix "andra" to his name. Other Oyarsu opposed his claim, and a three-day battle ensued, resulting in Argusandra's defeat*" "*by the combined skill of Viritrilbia and Perelandra*", forcing Argusandra to "*return to his homeworld*".

## References

1. ↑ *That Hideous Strength*, "Chapter 15: The Descent of the Gods"
2. ↑ Presumably this word is a typo for the word "excluding" within the non-canonical source.
3. ↑ https://fantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Argusandra
4. ↑ https://fantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Oyarsa
5. ↑ https://fantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Argusandra
Orfieu

Dr. **Orfieu** is a character in the unfinished novel *The Dark Tower* allegedly by Clive Staples Lewis. His assistant is Michael Scudamour.

Orfieu is an academic, who has designed the Chronoscope to look into the Othertime. As he believes time-traveling is impossible, he tries instead to view what is happening in those other times witb the help of this device.
Bent Will

The **Bent Will**, also known as the **Silence**, the **Darkness**, or just **bent**, is a concept referring to something which is corrupted or fallen from Maleldil such as The Bent One. Elwin Ransom also speaks of Bent Humans.

In Out of the Silent Planet, the Séroni tell Ransom that "a bent hnau can do more evil than a broken one.”

Weston and Devine are definitely bent humans. Weston's bentness becomes even more extreme when he becomes the Un-man on Perelandra and starts ripping frogs apart for pleasure. Devine later goes on to join the National Institute of Co-ordinated Experiments, whose Institutional Police and the Women's Auxiliary Institutional Police are very bent.

In *the Dark Tower*, it can be said that the Jerkies, Drones, and the Stingingmen are all bent humans, and that the Othertime social system is run by such people.

## Origins

In British slang someone who is "bent" is corrupt or criminal, e.g. a "bent copper" is a corrupt policeman, a "bent fiver" would be a forged five pound note. It is used in a similar sense here. In British English, "bent" can often be a pejorative for homosexual people.

The Bent One may also derive his name from Crom Dubh and Crom Cruach in Gaelic mythology (see linked articles).

## Quotations

> “Bent creatures are full of fears” (Out of the Silent Planet)
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> “He has left you this way because a bent hnau can do more evil than a broken one.” (Out of the Silent Planet)
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> “I see now how the lord of the silent world has bent you. There are laws that all hnau know, of pity and straight dealing and shame and the like, and one of these is the love of kindred. He has taught you to break all of them except this one, which is not one of the greatest laws; this one he has bent till it becomes folly and has set it up, thus bent” (Out of the Silent Planet)
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David Lindsay

**David Lindsay** is the name of two Scottish authors who had an influence upon the Space Trilogy.

## Sir David Lyndsay

Sir David Lindsay or Lyndsay (c. 1490 – c. 1555) was a renaissance poet and playwright. He is best known for his work *A Satire of the Three Estates*, which is best known for being one of only two plays to survive from an independent Scotland.

The title *That Hideous Strength* is taken from a work by Scottish Renaissance poet, Sir David Lyndsay in 1555, *Ane Dialog betuix Experience and ane Courteour*, also known as *The Monarche*. The couplet in question, "*The shadow of that hyddeous strength, sax myle and more it is of length*", refers to the Tower of Babel.

### External links

* *Works of David Lindsay*, Edinburgh (1776)
* Pinkerton, John, *Scottish Poems: Lindsay's Eight interludes from the Bannatyne Manuscript*, vol.2, London (1792)
* Chalmers, George, ed., *The poetical works of Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount: Lion king at arms, under James V*, vol.1, London (1806)
* Chalmers, George, ed., *The poetical works of Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount: Lion king at arms, under James V*, vol.2, London (1806)
* Chalmers, George, ed., *The poetical works of Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount: Lion king at arms, under James V*, vol.3, London (1806)
* Laing, David, ed., *Poetical Works of David Lyndsay*, vol.1, Edinburgh (1879)
* Laing, David, ed., *Poetical Works of David Lyndsay*, vol.2, Edinburgh (1879)
* Laing, David, ed., *Poetical Works of David Lyndsay*, vol.3, Edinburgh (1879)
* Full text of *The Dreme* in *Scottish Poetry of the Sixteenth Century* at archive.org

## David Lindsay (20th century)

The second David Lindsay (1876–1945) was a twentieth century writer, best known for his work *Voyage to Arcturus* which is a major influence upon *Out of the Silent Planet* and to a lesser extent *Perelandra*. Both Lewis and David Lindsay shared an admiration for the Scottish fantasy writer George MacDonald, although MacDonald's main influence is upon the Narnia series, not the Space Trilogy.

*The Dark Tower* despite its uncertain authorship also shows the influence of David Lindsay.

### External links

* "The Violet Apple" – site dedicated to the life and work of David Lindsay

## See also

* Inklings
* John William Donne
* J.B.S. Haldane
* William T. Kirkpatrick
* William Olaf Stapledon
* John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
* Herbert George Wells
* Charles Williams
Arthur

**Arthur**, also known as the **King** and a **Lord**, was the first Pendragon of Logres, who was due to return in the future. He was an acquaintance of Merlinus Ambrosius, a druidic wizard who was buried beneath Merlin's Well of Bragdon Wood in Edgestow. He wore the ring of the King on his finger.

At the time of his appointed death, Urendi Maleldil took him to Perelandra to live out his days at the House of Kings in Abhalljin/Aphallin, a cup-shaped land that existed beyond Lur.

## See also

* Arthur Denniston, another character with the same first name.
Ivy Maggs

*"Do you know," said Ivy in a low voice, "that’s a thing I don’t quite understand. [The eldila ] are so eerie… But I don’t feel like that about God. But He ought to be worse, if you see what I mean."* - *That Hideous Strength*
**Ivy Maggs** was formerly a part-time maid for Jane Studdock; now driven out of the town of Edgestow by National Institute of Co-ordinated Experiments and living at the Manor. Jane is puzzled at first by her status as an equal at the house.

Ivy's husband, Tom Maggs, is in the County Jail for ordinary theft.

She is part of the Company in the Manor at St. Anne's on the Hill.

## Quotations

“There’s your tea now,” said Ivy Maggs, “and I’ll go and get you a piece of cake, which is more than you deserve. And when you’ve had it you can go upstairs and talk about nouns for the rest of the evening.”

“Not about nouns: by means of nouns,” said MacPhee, but Mrs. Maggs had already left the room.
Asteroid Belt

> "And now I guess what it is that I have seen – Jupiter rising beyond the Asteroids and forty million miles nearer than he has ever been to earthly eyes."
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The **Asteroid Belt** comprise what humans call **Asteroids** in the Field of Arbol or Solar System. The Malacandrians refer to the Asteroid Belt as the "**dancers before the threshold of the Great Worlds"**", the "Great Worlds" being the outer gas giants including Glundandra, Lurga and Neruval.

These are small rocky worlds, of little importance and do not appear to have Hnau on them, but they may have been visited by Oyarsas and Eldila, or maybe even have some of their own.

In the Space Trilogy, the Low Worlds are newer worlds, and the Great Worlds are older ones, so the dancers before the threshold would be the middle children, so to speak.

They lie between Glundandra and Malacandra, but some wander elsewhere, into interplanetary and Interstellar space. Some occasionally collide with each other or the planets, and one or two even have their own moons.

The name seems to refer to Lewis' concept of the Great Dance, mentioned in the novel *Perelandra*:

> *In the plan of the Great Dance plans without number interlock, and each movement becomes in its reason the breaking into flower of the whole design to which all else is directed. Thus each is equally at the centre and none are there by being equals, but some by giving place and some by receiving it, the small things by their smallness and the great by their greatness, and all the patterns linked and looped together by the unions of a kneeling with a sceptre love. Blessed be He... So with the Great Dance. Set your eyes on one movement and it will lead you through all patterns and it will seem to you the master movement. But the seeming will be true. Let no mouth open to gainsay it. There seems no plan because it is all plan: there seems no centre because it is all centre. Blessed be He!*
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## Background

Very little was known about the Asteroid Belt in C.S. Lewis' day, other than they were rocks of various sizes. Since then there has been better observation and even landings on the bodies by human spacecraft. Contrary to what is heard in much of popular fiction, it is a very diffuse belt of material, and if one travelled through it, one would be unlikely to encounter an asteroid unless one aimed at it.

Some people have speculated that the asteroid belt is the remains of a larger destroyed planet, but this idea is not accepted by mainstream astronomy, and its combined mass is much lower than any of the planets.

The Malacandrian moons are likely captured from this zone.

It was not known until decades after Lewis' passing that there is another, larger group of Dancers beyond the ice giants.
Harandra

**Harandra** are the high country locations on Malacandra in *Out of the Silent Planet*. The air tends to be thin here, and although humans can tolerate it to some extent, hrossa cannot. Instead, they are the domain of the Séroni. The lower lying clefts are known as handramits.

## Quotations

* “Yes,” said Oyarsa, “but one thing we left behind us on the harandra: fear. And with fear, murder and rebellion. The weakest of my people does not fear death. It is the Bent One, the lord of your world, who wastes your lives and befouls them with flying from what you know will overtake you in the end. If you were subjects of Maleldil you would have peace.”
John William Donne

**John William Donne** (22 January 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet. In *That Hideous Strength*, Jane Tudor Studdock is writing a paper on him, and *Love's Alchymie* is quoted in chapter one.

Under royal patronage, he was made Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London (1621–1631). He is considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His poetical works are noted for their metaphorical and sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, and satires. He is also known for his sermons.

Donne's style is characterised by abrupt openings and various paradoxes, ironies and dislocations. These features, along with his frequent dramatic or everyday speech rhythms, his tense syntax and his tough eloquence, were both a reaction against the smoothness of conventional Elizabethan poetry and an adaptation into English of European baroque and mannerist techniques. His early career was marked by poetry that bore immense knowledge of English society and he met that knowledge with sharp criticism. Another important theme in Donne's poetry is the idea of true religion, something that he spent much time considering and about which he often theorised. He wrote secular poems as well as erotic and love poems. He is particularly famous for his mastery of metaphysical conceits.

Despite his great education and poetic talents, Donne lived in poverty for several years, relying heavily on wealthy friends. He spent much of the money he inherited during and after his education on womanising, literature, pastimes, and travel. In 1601, Donne secretly married Anne More, with whom he had twelve children. In 1615 he was ordained deacon and then Anglican priest, although he did not want to take Holy Orders and only did so because the king ordered it. He also served as a member of Parliament in 1601 and in 1614.

## See also

* Inklings
* J.B.S. Haldane
* William T. Kirkpatrick
* David Lindsay
* Olaf Stapledon
* J. R. R. Tolkien
* H.G. Wells
* Charles Williams

## External links

* John Donne on *Encyclopædia Britannica*
* Poems by John Donne at PoetryFoundation.org
* John Donne's Monument, St Paul's Cathedral
* John Donne: Sparknotes
* Digital Donne (digital images of early Donne editions and manuscripts)
* Poems by John Donne at English Poetry
Northumberland College

**Northumberland College** is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Edgestow. It is down from Bracton College, and located on the River Wynd in Edgestow.

Dr. Cecil Dimble works at the college.

## See also

* University of Cambridge
* University of Oxford
* Other Edgestow colleges
	+ Bracton College
	+ Duke's College
	+ St. Elizabeth's College
Story Skeleton

arrests 28 year old kid named Anthony Zeppeli for beating the shit out of some guy. after 24 hours in jail and a good talk he was released and told jojo about the stands, and walks off. confuzed but intrigued he finds anthonys info. on jojo's off day they meet up and anthony teaches jojo stands and they summon [insert devil's' name here] for jojo to get a stand. he acquires Blue Angel and starts to inspect it, figure it out how it works.
Fish

**Fish** were lifeforms that dwelled at least on Earth, Malacandra, and Perelandra. Fish were considered to be one of the main food supplies of the Hmāna on Earth and the Hrossa on Malacandra. They lived in the waters of the small seas and lakes on both planets, though the ones on Malacandra were mostly dry as the war with The Bent One of Earth destroyed much of Malacandra and probably its oceans.

Unlike the fish of Perelandra, they do not appear to be exclusively vegetarian. The "king" or apex predator of Malacandrian fish were Hnakra, much feared and respected by Malacandrians. The apex predator of the fish on Earth were sharks.

Since Perelandra is almost entirely covered by an ocean called Lur, much of its fauna consists of fish. The Perelandrian ocean is drinkable, so its fish would technically be freshwater. Like the rest of the fauna on Perelandra, the fish are friendly to Hnau and do not appear to be carnivorous.

Tinidril teaches Elwin Ransom how to use the fish to travel around the ocean, and this allows Ransom to reach the Fixed Island from the Floating Islands. Unfortunately, the Un-man also learns this trick, allowing him to spread his evil.

## Quotations

> *A moment later and the sea beside the island was a mass of the large silver fishes: spouting, curling their bodies, pressing upon one another to get nearer, and the nearest ones nosing the land. They had not only the colour but the smoothness of silver. The biggest were about nine feet long and all were thick-set and powerful-looking. They were very unlike any terrestrial species, for the base of the head was noticeably wider than the foremost part of the trunk. But then the trunk itself grew thicker again towards the tail. Without this tailward bulge they would have looked like giant tadpoles. As it was, they suggested rather pot-bellied and narrow-chested old men with very big heads. The Lady seemed to take a long time in selecting two of them. But the moment she had done so the others all fell back for a few yards and the two successful candidates wheeled round and lay still with their tails to the shore, gently moving their fins. "Now, Piebald, like this," she said, and seated herself astride the narrow part of the right-hand fish. Ransom followed her example. The great head in front of him served instead of shoulders so that there was no danger of sliding off. He watched his hostess. She gave her fish a slight kick with her heels. He did the same to his. A moment later they were gliding out to sea at about six miles an hour.*
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## See also

* Dragons
* frogs
* Hnakra
* submen
Gender Roles

*This is the temporary layout for topic pages. For now this will just be a short description followed by a list of relevant verses. Later on, the verses will be organized into a comprehensive explanation of the topic.*

This topic will discuss the disparity between men and women in the Law of God. Theonomists maintain that men and women are equal in value, but different in function and role. This topic may have some overlap with the Biblical Separation of Powers (family-head, church-pastor, state-judge).

*List verses which belong to this topic below:*

* Genesis 2:20-24
James Busby

**James Busby** is the bursar at Bracton College in *That Hideous Strength*. Busby is initially enthusiastic about the National Institute of Co-ordinated Experiments, and tries to encourage Mark Gainsby Studdock to support their purchase of Bragdon Wood.

Richard Devine is pleasant to Busby's face, and G.C. Curry's too, but he is rude about them both behind their backs.
Harry

**Harry** is the young man at The Rise who Dr. Elwin Ransom prevents being kidnapped by Weston and Devine as a sacrifice to the sorns. It is implied he has some kind of intellectual disability or learning difficulty.

Ransom is out walking near The Rise, when a storm strikes, and he tries to take shelter in there. He is looking for a place to stay the night and stumbles upon a small cottage where a woman is desperately waiting for her son, i.e. Harry to return. Ransom agrees to help her in hopes he might be able to stay the night at The Rise, the estate where Harry works.

At the front door, Ransom hears shouting and struggling inside. When he hurries around back, he sees Weston and Devine trying to force Harry, who turns out to be a dull-witted young man, to enter a structure on the property against his will. Ransom intervenes, and Devine sees him as a better prospect than Harry for what he and Weston have in mind. With Weston's grudging consent, Devine offers Ransom a drink and accommodations for the night.
Bragdon Wood

*"“Very few people are allowed into Bragdon Wood...”* - *That Hideous Strength*, page 18

**Bragdon Wood** was a piece of land in Edgestow, which Bracton College and the University of Edgestow wanted to sell it to the National Institute of Co-ordinated Experiments.

It was surrounded by walls, fenced and gated. The Progressive Element persuaded the fellows of Bracton to sell it to the N.I.C.E.

The fellows of Bracton debate the sale of Bragdon Wood, but the faculty already included some members of the N.I.C.E. The sale was controversial since the land in question was an ancient woodland, where Merlinus Ambrosius was said to rest in a well called Merlin's Well.

When the N.I.C.E. buy it, they start tearing down the trees and excavating it. The noise creates a lot of complaints from Edgestow residents. The wood is a haunt of travelling folk, and there the N.I.C.E. actually find a tramp known as the Sleeper whom they mistake for Merlin.

## Name

Bragdon is clearly cognate with Bracton, and the wood is less commonly known as Bracton Wood. The Bracton form looks more Germanic/Old English whereas Bragdon has more resemblence to a Brythonic Celtic name.

-ton means a settlement in old English, and -don often denotes a fortress in Celtic languages, with "brag" meaning "boasting".

## Inspiration

The idea of Merlin resting somewhere or indeed Arthur the King is a common trope. Merlin is said to be buried everywhere from Southern Scotland to Brittany.
Donald Ibrahim Swann

**Donald Ibrahim Swann** (1923–1994), was a Welsh born composer, best known for being half of of the Flanders and Swann duo. Donald Swann was born in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales. His father, Herbert Alfredovich Swann, was a Russian doctor of English descent, from the expatriate community that started out as the Muscovy Company. His mother, Naguimé Sultán Swann (born Piszóva), was a Turkmen-Russian nurse from Ashkabad/Ashgabat, now part of Turkmenistan. They were refugees from the Russian Revolution. Swann's great-grandfather, Alfred Trout Swan, a draper from Lincolnshire, emigrated to Russia in 1840 and married the daughter of the horologer to the tsars. Some time later the family added a second 'n' to their surname. His uncle Alfred wrote the first biography of Alexander Scriabin in English.

## Career

When by chance Swann and Flanders met again in 1948 it led to the start of their professional partnership. They began writing songs and light opera, Swann writing the music and Flanders writing the words. Their songs were performed by artists such as Ian Wallace and Joyce Grenfell. They subsequently wrote two two-man revues, *At the Drop of a Hat* and *At the Drop of Another Hat*, which they performed all over the world until their partnership ended in 1967.

At the same time, Swann was maintaining a prolific musical output, writing the music for several operas and operettas, including a full-length version of C. S. Lewis's *Perelandra* based on the novel of the same name, and a setting of J. R. R. Tolkien's poems from *The Lord of the Rings* to music in *The Road Goes Ever On* collection. In 1953–59 Swann provided music for seven plays by Henry Reed on the BBC Third Programme, generally known as the Hilda Tablet plays for one of the fictional characters, a lady composer of avant-garde "musique concrète renforcée". Besides incidental music, Swann composed for this character an opera, "Emily Butter" and several other complete works. A lifelong friendship with Sydney Carter resulted in scores of songs, the best known being "The Youth of the Heart" which reappeared in *At the Drop of A Hat*, and a musical *Lucy & the Hunter*.

After his partnership with Flanders ended, Swann continued to give solo concerts and to write for other singers. He also formed the *Swann Singers* and toured with them in the 1970s. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, he continued performing in various combinations with singers and colleagues and as a solo artist. In the later years of his life he 'discovered' Victorian poetry and composed some of his most profound and moving music to the words of William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Oscar Wilde and others. He wrote a number of hymn tunes which appear in modern standard hymn books.

It is estimated that Swann wrote or set to music nearly 2,000 songs during his career.

## References

1. ↑ Henry Reed radio drama – DIVERSITY. Suttonelms.org.uk.
2. ↑ Donald Swann. *Last Songs* (2001)
3. ↑ 'Donald Swann. (1923–1994). Songs', Hyperion CDA68172 (2017), reviewed at *MusicWeb International*
J.B.S. Haldane

> *I wanted to write about imaginary worlds. Now that our whole planet has been explored other planets are the only place you can put them.*
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> **Clive Staples Lewis**, *A Reply to Professor Haldane.*

**John Burdon Sanderson Haldane** FRS (5 November 1892 – 1 December 1964) was a British scientist and science writer known for his works in physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics. With innovative use of statistics in biology, he was one of the founders of neo-Darwinism. A World War I veteran, he taught biology at the University of Cambridge, the Royal Institution, and the University College London. Renouncing British citizenship, he became an Indian citizen and worked at the Indian Statistical Institute for the rest of his life. His sister was the noted Scottish writer, Naomi Mitchison.

## Influence on the Space Trilogy

Lewis said that his Space Trilogy was written in response to the dehumanising currents of modern science fiction.
Lewis stated in a letter to Roger Gilbert Lancelyn Green:

"*What immediately spurred me to write was Olaf Stapledon's* Last and First Men *… and an essay in J.B.S. Haldane's* Possible Worlds *both of wh[ich] seemed to take the idea of such [space] travel seriously and to have the desperately immoral outlook wh[ich] I try to pillory in Weston. I like the whole interplanetary ideas as a* mythology *and simply wished to conquer for my own (Christian) p[oin]t of view what has always hitherto been used by the opposite side. I think H. G. Wells'* First Men in the Moon *the best of the sort I have read …*"

## External links

* JBS Haldane on CS Lewis
* Lewis vs Haldane
* *Possible worlds, and other essays* at Toronto Public Library
* Facsimiles of Haldane's books and some of his scientific papers, with photographs, a detailed bibliography of his publications and other materials.
* An online copy of *Daedalus or Science and the Future*
* A review (from a modern perspective) of *The Causes of Evolution*
* Unofficial SJG Archive – People – JBS Haldane (1892–1964)
* Haldane's contributions to science in India
* Marxist Writers: J.B.S. Haldane
* The biography on the Marxist Writers page has a photograph of Haldane when he was younger.
* My Friend Mr. Leakey – text – Haldane's most amusing imaginary acquaintance
* Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics: the J B S Haldane papers
* Haldane: a cantankerous and charismatic pioneer

## See also

* John William Donne
* Inklings
* David Lindsay
* John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
* Herbert George Wells
* Charles Williams
Dichotomy

***Dichotomy*** is the third studio album by metal band Becoming the Archetype, released on November 24, 2008. The album features guest appearances by Devin Townsend, Ryan Clark, a soprano named Suzanne Richter, and Aslan.

The album is based heavily on C.S. Lewis' *Space Trilogy*.

It explores themes that are prevalent in the trilogy: biology versus technology and man versus machine. Dichotomy, which was released in November 2008, sold around 2,300 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen Soundscan. The CD debuted at No. 18 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the top 100 of the Billboard 200.

## Track listing

1. "Mountain of Souls (The Ghost)" (featuring Devin Townsend of Strapping Young Lad) - 5:16
2. "Dichotomy (The Tower)" (featuring Ryan Clark of Demon Hunter) - 4:25
3. "Artificial Immortality (The Beast)" - 3:58
4. "Self Existent (The Tomb)" - 4:18
5. "St. Anne's Lullaby (The Sage)" (Instrumental) - 1:53
6. "Ransom (The Serpent)" - 4:04
7. "Evil Unseen (The Root)" - 4:04
8. "How Great Thou Art (The Hymn)" - 4:29
9. "Deep Heaven (The Awakening)") - 4:38
10. "End of the Age (The Lion)" - 6:30

The band posted full album lyrics on their MySpace blog on September 11, 2008.

## Personnel

**Becoming the Archetype**

* Jason Wisdom - vocals, bass
* [Count Seth Hecox - guitars, keyboards, backing vocals
* Jon Star - guitars
* Brandon Lopez - drums, percussion

**Additional Musicians**

* Suzanne Richter - guest vocals on track 9
* [Ryan Clark (Demon Hunter) - guest vocals on track 2
* Devin Townsend (Strapping Young Lad) - guest vocals on track 1

## References

Template:Reflist

1. ↑ "'Dichotomy' Release Date Announced; New Webisode Available - Sep. 2, 2008"Template:Dead link *Blabbermouth.net*. Retrieved on September 9, 2008.
2. ↑ Becoming the Archetype NEWS for guests (09.25.2008)
3. ↑ Official "Dichotomy" lyrics posted by Becoming The Archetype on Myspace
Hnoo

**Hnoo** is a hross that works for The Oyarsa of Malacandra. He talks with The Oyarsa briefly in chapter 20 of *Out of the Silent Planet*.

## Quotations

“*I hope we done right, Oyarsa, but we do not know. We dipped his head in the cold water seven times, but the seventh time something fell off it. We had thought it was the top of his head, but now we saw it was a covering made of the skin of some other creature. Then some said we had done your will with the seven dips, and other said not. In the end we dipped it seven times more. We hope that was right. The creature talked a lot between dips, and most between the second seven, but we could not understand it.*” - Chapter 20
Floating Islands

> *"The cord of longing which drew him to the invisible isle seemed to him... to have fastened to it long, long before his coming to Perelandra"*
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The **Floating Islands** were islands made of rafts of vegetation. These weed islands take on the shape of the waves they pass over, so they have no firm shape. As the Floating Islands are not anchored to the sea bed, they move to different places all the time. Since there are no true continents on Perelandra, the handful of Perelandrians either live in the sea, Lur, or on the Floating Islands.

The Green Lady lives on one of these Floating Islands, and travels between them using friendly fish. Since the sea on Perelandra is drinkable, water is never a problem and the islands are stocked with food and shelter.

There is only one known island of *terra firma*, the Fixed Island and it is forbidden to spend the night on it.
Milky Way

The **Milky Way** is the galaxy in Deep Heaven where the Field of Arbol is located. All of the action in the Space Trilogy takes place in the Milky Way.

## Quotations

* *"And then I see the night sky. The greater part of it is very like ours, though the depths are blacker and the stars brighter; but something that no terrestrial analogy will enable you fully to picture is happening in the west. Imagine the Milky Way magnified – the Milky Way seen through our largest telescope on the clearest night. And then imagine this, not painted across the zenith, but rising like a constellation behind the mountain tops – a dazzling necklace of lights brilliant as planets, slowly heaving itself up till it fills a fifth of the sky and now leaves a belt of blackness between itself and the horizon. It is too bright to look at for long, but it is only a preparation. Something else is coming. There is a glow like moonrise on the harandra. Ahihra! cries Hyoi, and other baying voices answer him from the darkness all about us. And now the true king of night is up, and now he is threading his way through that strange western galaxy and making its lights dim by comparison with his own. I turn my eyes away, for the little disk is far brighter than the Moon in her greatest splendour.*" - "Out of the Silent Planet"

Milky Way
Hressa-Hlab

**Hressa-Hlab**, also called **Hressa Hlab** and **Hrossian**, is the Old Solar term for the speech of the hrossa. It is unclear whether it is a dialect of Old Solar, a language in its own right or refers to both.

Hrossa are wont to add an initial h- to words so in some words such as *hnau* vs *nau*, or to modify Dr. Elwin Ransom's words such as human-> "*hmāna*".

The hrossa's word for "to eat" contains consonants unreproducible by the human mouth, so is probably not Old Solar.
March of the Macrobes

***March of the Macrobes*** is a song by punk band Blaster the Rocket Man. It alludes to macrobes and the N.I.C.E.'s attempts to disembody the heads of those who wish to gain immortality with lines such as, *"Leave flesh behind / There's only mind / Or set the brain apart / To elevate the heart / Whatever happened to the individual? (N.I.C.E.) / Where is his soul? (R.A.P.E.)."*
Arthur Denniston

**Arthur Denniston** is an academic at the University of Edgestow and a former friend of Mark Gainsby Studdock from student days. He and Mark were rival candidates for a fellowship at Bracton College, which Mark won through the influence of Lord Feverstone. They drifted apart before Jane entered the picture and Studdock became obsessed with reaching the "inner circle" at Bracton.

He is part of the Company in the Manor at St. Anne's on the Hill and is married to Camilla.

## Quotations

* "Don't you like a rather foggy a in a wood in autumn? You'll find we shall be perfectly warm sitting in the car."

Jane said she'd never heard of anyone liking fogs before but she didn't mind trying. All three got in.
"That's why Camilla and I got married, "said Denniston as they drove off. "We both like Weather. Not this or that kind of weather, but just Weather. It's a useful taste if one lives in England."
"How ever did you learn to do that, Mr. Denniston?" said Jane. "I don't think I should ever learn to like rain and snow."
"It's the other way round," said Denniston. "Everyone begins as a child by liking Weather. You learn the art of disliking it as you grow up. Noticed it on a snowy day? The grown-ups are all going about with long faces, but look at the children - and the dogs? They know what snow's made for."
"I'm sure I hated wet days as a child," said Jane.
"That's because the grown-ups kept you in," said Camilla. "Any child loves rain if it's allowed to go out and paddle about in it.”
## See also

* Arthur, another character with the same first name.
Mark Gainsby Studdock

**Mark Gainsby Studdock**, known as **Guv'ner** by the Sleeper, is a protagonist; sociologist, and ambitious to the point of obsession with reaching the Inner Circle of his social environment. In *That Hideous Strength* Mark assumes he is climbing the organizational ladder at the National Institute of Co-ordinated Experiments (NICE), when he is actually descending into hell.

He is married to Jane Tudor Studdock and has a twin sister, Myrtle Studdock.

## Development

Chris S. Friel in his paper, *It All Began in The Dark Tower* suggests Michael Scudamour in *The Dark Tower*was an early model for Mark Studdock, although the authorship of that work remains controversial.

## Quotations

> “I suppose there are two views about everything,” said Mark. “Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.”
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> “I get the idea,' said Mark though with an inward reservation that his present instinctive desire to batter the Professor's face into jelly would take a good deal of destroying.”
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> 'It must be remembered that in Mark’s mind hardly one rag of noble thought, either Christian or Pagan, had a secure lodging. His education had been neither scientific nor classical–merely “Modern”. The severities both of abstraction and of high human tradition had passed him by: and he had neither peasant shrewdness nor aristocratic honour to help him. He was a man of straw, a glib examinee in subjects that require no exact knowledge (he had always done well on Essays and General Papers), and the first hint of a real threat to his bodily life knocked him sprawling.
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## References

1. ↑ https://www.academia.edu/32764528/It\_All\_Began\_in\_The\_Dark\_Tower\_An\_Episode\_from\_Edmund\_Spenser\_in\_the\_Life\_of\_C\_S\_Lewis
Logres

"*When Logres really dominates Britain, when the goddess Reason, the divine clearness, is really enthroned in France, when the order of Heaven is really followed in China – why, then it will be spring.* " - *That Hideous Strength*

**Logres**, also known as **Arthurian Britain**, is the ancient name of Britain, or at least England. It is the name that Merlin knows the place by. As such, Belbury, Bragdon Wood, Bracton College, the University of Edgestow and the Manor are all located in Logres or at least its modern equivalent.

Mr. Bultitude is the last of the seven bears of Logres.

## Basis

Logres or Loegria is a name commonly found in Arthurian lore. The name *Lloegrwys* (‘Men of Logres’) appears in the early Welsh poem *Y Gododdin* and in an early poem in praise of Urien by Taliesin. It is applied to the northern Angles (English) who are enemies of the Britons (Celtic Welsh). It is cognate with the modern Welsh "Lloegr", which is used to mean "England" and literally means "lost lands", since England was ethnically Welsh before the Roman and Anglo-Saxon invasions.

The name "Logres" is used in many other works of modern fantasy set in Britain, for example Susan Cooper's *Over Sea, Under Stone*.

## Parallel to the *The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe*

In the Narnia series, Aslan the Lion must free the country from the grip of the Ice Queen, and it is famously said that in Narnia it is "always winter and never Christmas".
Margaret Dimble

**Margaret "Mother" Dimble** is the wife of Cecil Dimble. The Dimbles have no children, much to their sadness, but have compensated by their kindness to students at Bracton College. She is very maternal, and shows fondness towards Cecil's male and female students alike. She is part of the Company in the Manor.

We are told she is “strictly feminine in the old-fashioned sense.”
Kanakaberaka

**Kanakaberaka** is a *pfifltrigg* who carves Ransom's portrait onto a stone at Meldilorn.

## Quotations

*"In our country," said Kanakaberaka, "it is not like this. We are not pinched in a narrow handramit. There are the true forests, the green shadows, the deep mines. It is warm. It does not blaze with light like this, and it is not silent like this. I could put you in a place there in the forests where you could see a hundred fires at once and hear a hundred hammers. I wish you had come to our country. We do not live in holes like the sorns nor in bundles of weed like the hrossa. I could show you houses with a hundred pillars, one of sun's blood and the next of stars' milk, all the way ... and all the world painted on the walls."'*
Othertime social system

The **Othertime social system**, is the largely unseen force in the Othertime governing that world in the novel of *the Dark Tower* allegedly by Irish author Clive Staples Lewis. They seem to employ the Drones, the Jerkies and the Stingingmen, and are a technocratic dictatorship. They are also building the Dark Tower for unknown purposes.

## Basis

The relationship of *The Dark Tower* to the other works is unclear. Some critics see it as an early version of *That Hideous Strength*, with Michael Scudamour being a template for Mark Gainsby Studdock. If so, the Othertime social system may bear some relation to the National Institute of Co-ordinated Experiments, and like them it could be under the influence of Dark Eldila similar to the Macrobes.
Malacandrians

**Malacandrians** are the inhabitants of Malacandra or Mars. Unlike Earth (Thulcandra) or the planet of Perelandra (Venus), Malacandra has several Hnau species with very different traits and habitats who co-operate with one another and co-exist peacefully. Malacandrians mostly feature in *Out of the Silent Planet*

Dr. Elwin Ransom finds he is prejudiced at first against the natives of Malacandra, he finds that they become disgusting and horrible when he tries to think of them as strange humans, but perfectly admirable and attractive when he approaches them on their own terms. Ransom is initially horrified by the appearance of the séroni, because they're very elongated humanoids. The other two species of hnau on Malacandra resemble animals, so Ransom is able to accept them much sooner. He decides that thinking of the hrossa as anthropomorphic animals is a lot less unsettling than thinking of them as animalistic men. The hnau of Perelandra, an infant planet compared to Earth and Mars, are far more human in appearance.

Malacandrian hnau include:

* Hrossa, who are warrior-poets and musicians prone to flamboyant action and speech; their humour consisting predominantly of elaborate wordplays. They take great joy in hunting dangerous animals face to face, and composing epic poems; but are prone to overlook simple practicalities. Likely inspired by the style of the Scandanavian Eddas and Sagas, possibly the Irish.
* Pfifltriggi, who are miners and artists; whose humour is described as "excelling in practical jokes and personal abuse". They are expert craftsmen and architects who delight in technology and the visual arts.
* Séroni or sorns, who are are reserved and solitary shepherds, whose humour is described as dry and sardonic. They're the philosophers and scientists, more interested in abstract principles than technology.

## Influences

C.S. Lewis admitted taking inspiration from H.G. Wells' *The War of the Worlds*, but rather than being a violent expansionist species, the Malacandrians of his own books have no designs on Earth, although they realise it is a fallen world.

## Pop culture references

The hrossa, séroni, and pfifltriggi are several of the races living on Mars in Larry Niven's 1999 novel *Rainbow Mars*; they are referred to as the "Pious Ones" by the Barsoomian races. The hrossa are called the "Fishers", the pfifltriggi the "Smiths", and the séroni the "High Folk". The pfifltriggi are one of the races who chose to ride to Earth on Yggdrasil.

The séroni appear at the beginning of the second volume of *The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen* as one of the Martian races allied against the "mollusc invaders" (the Martians from The War of the Worlds).

In *Scarlet Traces: The Great Game*, a hieroglyphics-filled chamber seems to show the hrossa, séroni, and pfifltriggi as the original races of Mars, that were wiped out by the arrival of the War of the Worlds Martians.
Much Nadderby

> The far-flung line even in the wilds of Sterk and Nadderby.
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**Much Nadderby**, or just **Nadderby**, is a small town near Sterk in *Out of the Silent Planet*.

## History

There was a hotel called the spire of Much Nadderby which was run by a kindly old landlord. Elwin Ransom occasionally stayed at the hotel during his walking tours. Eventually, however, the landlord was replaced by a British innkeeper known only as the lady who considered guests to be nuisances.

After spending a night at Stoke Underwood, Ramsom walked to Much Nadderby on a moonless night, hoping to end his walking tour at the hotel there. The lady, however, refused to allow him to stay despite the hotel being empty and a storm raging outside. After the barmaid explained the situation of the hotel changing hands, Ransom left Much Nadderby, intending to end his tour at "*an inn at Sterk*".

Now walking to the south of Much Nadderby, Ransom encountered a house where a woman lived. When Ransom asked her if there was any inn closer than Sterk, the woman recommended Much Nadderby. After Ransom explained his situation there, the woman explained he was out of luck, but explained her own situation regarding The Rise and her Harry not being back. Ransom offered his aid.

When Ransom found and entered The Rise, he encountered two men, Edward Rolles Weston and Richard Devine, who were trying to take Harry aboard Weston's spaceship. He was recognized by Devine, who, while introducing him and Weston, mentioned the town of Much Nadderby.

Later, after Harry was released, Ransom explained his walking tour situation at Much Nadderby to Devine. However, this caused them to take him on the spaceship to Malacandra rather than Harry.

## Etymology

"Nadder" is an old form of the word "adder" meaning a snake, and "by" is from the Norse for farm.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 *Out of the Silent Planet*, chapter 1
2. ↑ *Out of the Silent Planet*, chapter 3
3. ↑ *Out of the Silent Planet*, chapter 2
London

**London** is the capital of England, and the United Kingdom. It is also by far the biggest cities in both.

## *Out of the Silent Planet*

When Dr. Elwin Ransom looks out of The Spaceship in *Out of the Silent Planet* he sees Earth and thinks
“*It was all there in that little disc- London, Athens, Jerusalem, Shakespeare. There everyone had lived and everything had happened; and there, presumably, his pack was still lying in the porch of an empty house near Sterk.*”

## Background

When Lewis was writing London was still capital of the British Empire, which ruled India, Malaya, and much of Africa etc, and also had influence over Australia, Canada and many other parts of the world.
Great earth crawlers

The **great earth crawlers**, or **great earth beetles**, were insectlike creatures that lived in the underland beneath the Fixed Island on Perelandra.

Ransom briefly encounters creatures that looked like giant beetles in the caverns of the underland beneath the crystal cliffs of the Fixed Island. During the final confrontation between Ransom and the Un-man, Around seven or eight of the great earth crawlers are seemingly summoned by the Un-man to provoke Ransom into fear. However, once Ransom removed the Un-man's presence, the fear it generated disappeared from him and the creatures go back the way they came because they did not like the look of Ransom.

Later, Ransom sees the creatures working, dragging a wide platform with a sort of Pagan idol on it. Because of this , Ransom suspects they are hnau, or becoming Hnau, noting that he should appease their Gods just as an apology for trespassing in the underland. He notes that they are in a more advanced state than the submen and noted that the land below the Fixed Island was made for something, perhaps made for the great earth crawlers.

## Non-canon

Some non-canon sources call these Irkstrin (singular Irkstri), and say they came from Viritrilbia (Mercury) to Perelandra to mine. If they are native to Mercury, then they must have arrived in spacecraft. They resemble giant fleas or beetles and are around nine foot tall.

## Quotations

> *There was also a place where he himself walked in darkness and looked down through fathom below fathom of shafts and natural arches and winding gulfs on to a smooth floor lit with a cold green light. And as he stood and looked it seemed to him that four of the great earth beetles, dwarfed by distance to the size of gnats, and crawling two by two, came slowly into sight. And they were drawing behind them a flat car, and on the car, upright, unshaken, stood a mantled form, huge and still and slender. And driving its strange team it passed on with insufferable majesty and went out of sight. Assuredly the inside of this world was not for man. But it was for something.*
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## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 *Perelandra*, chapter 14
2. ↑ *Perelandra*, chapter 15
3. ↑ Wind of the Hilltop - Arbol Races