Spencer Sims, Out of the Silent Planet Discussion

Class:11-11-14

This evening we discussed the many ways in which C.S. Lewis addressed morality and religion in his novel series "The Space Trilogy". To begin the class Professor Redick began with a reading from "Science is a fiction". One of the many things I appreciated from this excerpt was the clarification that the writing did not set out to disenfranchise science when making this comparison but in fact has helped humanity in an effort to  capture and explain our reality. With the writers viewpoint of how the scientific viewpoint seeks out the what and the how, but in many ways looks over the why, I was elated to hear of his opening to discovery.

When we moved onto the involvement of the actor in myth, and how it effects the meaning of both the self and the meaning of the adventure/story. This was a point i could relate to but not to the end that we spent the most discussion on in that class. I think this phenomena speaks volumes of the retelling of a story for a storyteller.When one presents a narrative to attempt to convey all of the experience, the events, the emotion, and other complexities involved, the story teller doesn't just tell what happened in the story, how they tell these stories effect how much the audience can experience with he story teller. pauses, eye contact with the audience, idiosyncrasies of character, or even the, what appears to be, insignificant observations of any character.to give a true retelling of a myth, one must re-experience it to even remotely to share its depth. a storyteller must reach out of themselves to tell a myth in the feelings the audience understands not in the words the storyteller has known.