The Voice of the Oyarsa

Senior year has been anything but calm and sedate, and thus I haven't been able to post much, but I will have a post coming to you over the weekend.  In the meantime, here's an excerpt from Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis! 

"Be silent," said the voice of the Oyarsa.  "You, thick one, have told me nothing of yourself, so I will tell it to you.  In your own world, you have attained great wisdom concerning bodies and by this you have been able to make a ship that can cross the heaven; but in all other things you have the mind of an animal.  When you first came here, I sent for you, meaning you nothing but honour.  The darkness in your own mind filled you with fear.  Because you thought I meant evil to you, you went as a beast goes against a beast of some other kind, and snared this Ransom.  You would give him up to the evil you feared.  Today, seeing him here, to save your own life, you would have given him to me a second time, still thinking I meant him hurt.  These are your dealings with your own kind.  And what you intend to my people, I know.  Already you have killed some.  And you have come here to kill them all.  To you it is nothing whether a creature is hnau or not.  At first I thought this was because you cared only whether a creature had a body like your own; but Ransom has that and you would kill him as lightly as any of my hnau.  I did not know that the Bent One had done so much in your world and still I do not understand it.  If you were mine, I would unbody you even now.  Do not think follies; by my hand Meleldil does greater things than this, and I can unmake you even on the borders of your own world's air.  But I do not yet resolve to do this.  It is for you to speak.  Let me see if there is anything in your mind besides fear and death and desire."

Talk about a wake up call.