Of course, Lewis anticipated the bigger-on-the-inside trope in The Last Battle: "In our world, too, a stable once had something in it that was bigger than our whole world."
Lewis anticipated the Tardis with his Stable but George MacDonald, Lewis's acknowledged "master", had anticipated him by about 85 years, in At the Back of The North Wind in the chapter called Nanny's Dream: Nanny visits the man in the moon, going through the door of a very little spherical house and finding it huge and expansive inside:
"He took my hand and led me down the stair again, and through a narrow passage, and through another, and another, and another. I don't know how there could be room for so many passages in such a little house. The heart of it must be ever so much further from the sides than they are from each other. How could it have an inside that was so independent of its outside? There's the point. It was funny - wasn't it, Diamond?"
"No," said Diamond. He was going to say that that was very much tehs osrt of thing at the back of the north wind; but he checked himself and only added, "All right. I don't see it. I don't see why the inside should depend on the outside..."
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Date: 2011-11-21 10:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-11-21 12:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-11-21 02:56 pm (UTC)And, yes, that line made me laugh out loud.
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Date: 2011-11-21 03:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-11-22 04:15 pm (UTC)"He took my hand and led me down the stair again, and through a narrow passage, and through another, and another, and another. I don't know how there could be room for so many passages in such a little house. The heart of it must be ever so much further from the sides than they are from each other. How could it have an inside that was so independent of its outside? There's the point. It was funny - wasn't it, Diamond?"
"No," said Diamond. He was going to say that that was very much tehs osrt of thing at the back of the north wind; but he checked himself and only added, "All right. I don't see it. I don't see why the inside should depend on the outside..."
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Date: 2011-11-22 04:21 pm (UTC)I'd love to see "Doctor Who meets Phantastes"...