It was part of the bubbling

[soso]

Some people seem to think that I began by asking [myself] [how I could say something about Christianity to children]; 

then fixed on the fairy tale /as an instrument; 

then collected information about child-psychology and decided [what age-group I’d write] for; 

then drew up a list of basic Christian truths and hammered out “allegories” /to embody them. 

This is all pure moonshine. 

I couldn’t write /in that way /at all. 

Everything began with images, a faun /carrying an umbrella, a queen on a sledge, a magnificent lion. 

At first there wasn’t even anything Christian about them; 

that element pushed itself in /of its own accord.

It was part of the bubbling.

* 동격 관계의 복합명사 anything=Christian ; anything which is Christian

From On Stories

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature. Copyright © 1982, 1966 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.