The Parker family are sitting down at the table enjoying a Christmas feast and attempting to find some innocuous subjects to chat about. The subject of Narnia crops up.
Me: Was I a thick kid? I don't think I had any idea that the books were based on the Bible...
John: Well, I was eight when I read it so, no, I don't think it was terribly surprising that I missed its allegory. I was older when I read Lord of the Rings and had no idea that it was a critique of the Industrial Revolution!
Dad: Wha?
John: It's a critique of the Industrial Revolution. Well, of industrialisation anyway... It's not just me that thinks it! It's obvious!
Dad: Well, maybe in your mud-huts down in Putney, but...!
Mud-huts? In Putney? Eh?
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It is fairly obvious like.
Doesn't stop it being a good book like, unlike them narnia ones, which I could never stand.
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