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.