" No," said the Director, "
there is no escape. If it were a virginal rejection of the male. He would allow
it. Such souls can by-pass the male and go on to meet something far more
masculine, higher up, to which they must make a yet deeper surrender. But your
trouble has been what old poets called Daungier. We call it Pride. You are
offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing-the
gold lion, the bearded bull-which breaks through hedges and scatters the little kingdom
of your primness as
the dwarfs scattered the carefully made bed. The male you could have escaped, for it exists only on the biological level. But the masculine none of us can escape. What is above and beyond all things is so masculine that we are all feminine in relation to it. You had better agree with your adversary quickly."
" You mean I shall have to become a Christian? " said Jane.
" It looks like it," said the Director. -- That Hideous Strength, C S Lewis
the dwarfs scattered the carefully made bed. The male you could have escaped, for it exists only on the biological level. But the masculine none of us can escape. What is above and beyond all things is so masculine that we are all feminine in relation to it. You had better agree with your adversary quickly."
" You mean I shall have to become a Christian? " said Jane.
" It looks like it," said the Director. -- That Hideous Strength, C S Lewis
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