When the author (of this book) was a young man, he wrote Lewis a confrontational letter, and received a gentle reply. In game theory, this is the equivalent of a greedy move, met with an amiable rejoinder.

• Lewis was witty
• His writing don't address the war
• Lewis served in WWI, wrote during WWII
• Christianity is a major – if not the major – theme of his work
• nostrum n. - an ineffective medicine, as if made by a quack

• his work makes a case for the "forgotton strategy" of achieving our haman capacity

  • Christianity

    It ought to be noted that Lewis's Christian literature is both so sophisticated, and that it supports highly developed thoughts and popular, and that it appeals to a wide range of readers. He does not achieve the latter by pandering to the notion that he will disclose the secrets of his life, or flatter the reader with extravagant spates of experience (9)

  • Lewis doesn't "take seriously the kind of ideological schools that develop in [the world of] literary citicism"
  • Throughout the war, he wrote a total of 11 books, in addition to essays, so he was prolific. What's more that fact, coupled with the detachment from literary critical schools noted above, shows that he was "doing his own thing". His Christian literature is unique.
  • What the author calls his "shape of thought" appears, from this first chapter, to be a mark of Lewis' individuality; he was not a part of critical literary school, and he had his own voice.