WIP Welcome to my Dichotomy Space Trilogy Reference Review!

This is a paragraph! Hay. ive wanted to do this for a whiiiiiIIIiiiiiiiile.

Dichotomy is a really cool album by Becoming the Archetype. It's largely based on the Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis. I'm going to see if I can spot all of the references to the books.

obviously there will be some spoilers for the books, which you should read first. Do not read this article until you've read Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and The Hideous Strength. I'm really serious, I'm going to be mad at you if you ruin them for yourself. If you still refuse to listen to me, at least please have a poor enough memory to read them in like a year after you've read this.

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3. Artificial Immortality

Remove the head, remove the soul, implant the artificial
In T.H.S. a decapitated head serves as a vessel for the Devil, and tricks a progressive scientific organization into believing they can achieve immortality by obeying him, believing The Head to still be its original owner.

5. St. Anne's Lullaby

St. Anne's is an estate in T.H.S. where those opposing the National Institute of Co-ordinated Experiments meet

6. Ransom

Ransom is the name of the main character in Silent Planet and Perelandra.
The sky grows pale, and the sea turns black / Solid darkness falls all around me
Directly refers to the nighttime of Perelandra.
But the darkness is not empty / It is bearing down upon me
Likely refers to when Ransom is being chased in a cave system toward the end of a book
And I know this can't go on
When Ransom decides he cannot out-argue Satan, who is possessing the physicist Weston and attempting to corrupt the "Eve" of Perelandra, he knows "this can't go on" and resolves to kill him
Oh death, my worthy adversary / You've tormented me for far too long
Likely refers to Ransom's long "debates" with Satan
He leapt into the arms of hell itself / That gave birth to corruption / And battled with the undead corpse / Until its face was smashed beyond recognition
Dramatized reference to Ransom attacking Weston, battering him literally until his face was "smashed beyond recognition"
My hands have taught me terrible things
The line directly comes from Ransom's fight with Weston-- "his hands taught him terrible things" is to say Ransom didn't know his own strength and the destruction he was capable of

9. Deep Heaven

Entire song's prooooooobably about Ransom's trip to Malacandra in Silent Planet, but I'll look at it deeper later