ÒI thought I saw how stories
of this kind could steal past a certain
inhibition which had paralysed much of my own
religion in childhood. Why did one
find it so hard to feel as one was told one
ought to feel about God or about the sufferings
of Christ? I thought the chief reason was that one was told one ought toÉ And reverence itself did harmÉ But supposing by casting all these
things into an imaginary world, stripping them of
their stained-glass and Sunday School
associations, one could make them for the first
time appear in their real potency?
Could one not thus steal past those
watchful dragons?Ó Of Other Worlds,
p 37.