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A man in this book quotes St. Paul, saying “when I became a man I put away childish things,” after his former colleague implores him to become like a child in order to have faith. A man in this book reluctantly allows the Burning One to kill a lizard that had clung to him which, after dying, is transformed into a majestic horse. The author’s Platonism inspired a conceit in this book in which grass and flowers are hard “like diamond” to characters until they “thicken” like the “solid people.” In this book, a flying bus takes the narrator from a miserable (*) grey (-5[1])town where it always rains to beautiful “foothills” (-5[1])where he meets George MacDonald. This book is framed as a dream-vision in which souls from Heaven come meet acquaintances who either go on with them to Heaven or return alone to Hell. For 10 points, name this book by C. S. Lewis titled in reference to Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell. ■END■ (0[4])

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