![]() Lets keep in mind that Lewis’ perception of Venus does not match the reality that has been discovered. Well there’s a whole ‘nother planet here! Presently night falls and is totally dark, as the cloud cover lets in no starlight, nor does Venus have a moon (39). ![]() It was like the discovery of a totally new genus of pleasures” (37), but he had only one as it quenched his hunger and thirst completely. The taste, if it should be called taste, was unlike anything on earth: “It seemed mere pedantry to call it a taste at all. It moves with the waves, seeming to float, but is firm enough to lay or walk upon, though the walking took quite a bit of practice (36).įinally, he finds fruit-bearing vegetation and drinks the juice from it. He eventually meets a form of land that first appears as “great patches of floating stuff was sidling down a wave”(35). Ransom floats atop great waves and weathers quite a storm (34). The clouds are too dense to appreciate the sun, though its setting is obvious. ![]() The coffin-like spacecraft essentially melts away, leaving Ransom naked and floating on a vast ocean and under a golden sky. Unconscious for most of the journey, Ransom regains consciousness as he is descending to the surface and begins to feel Venus’ gravity. Asked if it was too vague to put into words, he responds, “On the contrary, it is words that are vague” (30). This is due mostly to the other-worldliness of Perelandra and the limits of language. ![]() Lewis begins the chapter by describing how difficult it was to get Ransom to describe aspects of his journey. ![]()
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