Would it be Mark and Jane's child? So they would see in their lifetime the promise of the saving of Logres. Dimble reveals Ransom as the 79th Pendragon and concludes "tomorrow we shall know, or tonight, who is to be the 80th". This subject is met with renewed expectation in Chapter 17 "Venus at St. Ransom's reply bears confidence as he concludes "The child may yet be born". Chapter 13 "They Have Pulled Down Deep Heaven on Their Heads" finds Ransom and Merlin on the subject of Jane, to which Merlin says "it was the purpose of God that she and her lord should between them have begotten a child by whom the enemies should have been put out of Logres for a thousand years". It's very Lewis!"Ĭlarice, your mention of Adam and Eve in this context recalled to my mind that there was a prophesy concerning Eve's offspring, and similarly there is a prophesy for Mark and Jane, that their child would be instrumental in the saving of Logres. Clarice wrote: "Adam and Eve, the garden, a "new earth".it's all very symbolic.
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