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Taste Is All Wrong
Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Nov 29, 2011 (message contributor)
TASTE IS ALL WRONG
I remember one of the stories from the Chronicles of Narnia from the book "The Last Battle." It was the story of a number of dwarfs who just didn't believe in Aslan (who represented Jesus Christ in all the books). They were blind to reality refusing to be "taken in" by those believers. Aslan observes all this: "Aslan raised his head and shook his mane. Instantly a glorious feast appeared on the Dwarfs' knees: pies and tongues and pigeons and trifles and ices, and each Dwarf had a goblet of good wine in his right hand. But it wasn't much use. They began eating and drinking greadily enough, but it was clear that they couldn't taste it properly. They thought they were eating and drinking only the sort of things you might find in a stable. One said he was trying to eat hay and anther said he had got a bit of an old turnip and a third said he'd found a raw cabbage leaf. And they raised golden goblets to their lips and said 'Ugh! Fancy drinking dirty water out of a trough that a donkey's been at!'"
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