Trivia / That Hideous Strength

• Author Appeal: Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien once went to a (non-costume) party dressed as bears. This might have inspired the bear of Logres as a character.
  • "Mr. Bultitude" was the name of an actual (and very ordinary) bear in a zoo Lewis visited.
• Write What You Know: It's why part of the action is set at a college. In the Preface, Lewis admits:
  "[T]he outer rim of that devilry had to be shown touching the life of some ordinary and respectable profession. I selected my own profession, not, of course, because I think fellows of colleges more likely to be thus corrupted than anyone else, but because my own is the only profession I know well enough to write about."

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