Status Updates From Out of the Silent Planet

Since noone would believe such a story, they write it as science fiction. They hope to reach open minds and hearts with important ideas before the story reaches Weston. If the story is literary enough, even better, since Weston doesn’t read trash. It may be that some people uncover the identities of key players. Space and the Heavens are two different things. Events (Perelandra) happened before they could publish.

“The planet that shall not be named”..... LOL

The manuscript tells of a journey through the heavens and he’s struggling to translate the word “oyarsas.” Of course, he is!!!!! Ransom invites him to visit for the weekend for there is no way one could put something so crazy in a letter. They decide to read old manuscripts and information about medieval Platonists to get more facts to substantiate his experience. He gives the three fake names and identities.

Ch. 22 I love the romance here. He is unconscious for the landing (figurative death). Because he spends several months ill and recovering, he questions his own sanity. Perhaps it was all a delusion. Ransom (not his real name) decides to keep quiet until he receives a letter from an acquaintance with a literary bent about an obscure word in a 12th-century manuscript written by the Platonist Bernardus Silvestris.