In Perelandra, Ransom meets a woman on Venus who is the Eve of her world, and I just read the part where she reveals her version of the “forbidden fruit”—the commandment given her by the great Maleldil. Ransom has spent his entire time on Venus so far on a floating island, and has, for the first time on Venus, caught a glimpse of “fixed land.” There are many, many floating islands, it seems—perhaps even more land mass floa...
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