I am reminded of the story of Eustace in C. S. Lewis’s The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. After falling asleep on a dragon’s hoard, Eustace wakes up as a dragon. He’s a frightening monster and doesn’t even know it. When he sees two thin columns of smoke going up before his eyes, he doesn’t realize it’s coming from his own dragon nostrils. Once he learns that he is a dragon, it causes him to do a little self-reflection. Even though he had been blaming everyone else on the ship for all his problems, he begins to realize “the others had not really been fiends at all.”4 Moreover—and here’s where
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