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Their wordsAs Philip Pullman regularly points out, aspects of Lewis’s work have dated very badly—particularly around his portrayal of girls and women—but I do think that it not only changed me but had a genuine transformative effect that rippled the length and breadth of popular culture.
Their wordsLewis may have been the first person to successfully imagine what it would actually be like to have magic happen right in front of you.
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