Kelsey Garegnani - Out of the silent planet

One things I noticed when I was starting Out of the Silent Planet was the relation of Ransom’s first experience in space with Cs Lewis’s ideas on literature. He saw a moon but thought it must not be the same moon because it was so different. It was brighter he said, and the sun too, the way it shinned was so unique. It looked nothing like the ones he knew and gave him completely different feelings. In this way fiction creates worlds which might look familiar but look nothing like our own. And it is through that new experience, feeling things, and seeing them in a new way or seeing new things altogether that we learn more about the other, the sacred. It can point back to our own world but in many ways it unifies our world with this new one in order to point to the one that lies beyond them both.