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5 A scribe then proposed removing the passages in which Lewis’s Christian theology differed from the Society’s, that he might agree with it more completely.
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6 The keeper answered: We shall identify the disagreement, not repair the author into an endorsement.
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7 For gratitude is not improved by putting our words into another’s mouth.
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8 And a prophet need not have anticipated our organization in order to have given us something worth examining.
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9 They therefore kept the source beside the response, and named the new stories as their own.
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10 They did not ask readers to call a fictional demon trustworthy merely because he spoke confidently.
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11 Neither did they ask readers to call every confident stranger a demon.
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12 One reader found an uncomfortable resemblance to herself and laughed.
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13 Another found a point of disagreement and wrote it down.
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14 Both had read something more useful than a certificate announcing that they already understood everything.
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15 And the book remained open, which was less convenient for display and better for reading.
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Honor the writer without recruiting him after the fact.
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TRY IT Name one insight you value and one point on which you differ. Keep both attached to the actual source.
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READING CONVERSATION Original SOSP parable. In conversation with Lewis’s Preface and Letters 14, 23, 27; pp. 2, 29–30, 47–48, 55–56.