C. S. Lewis approves of waterboarding
Okay, maybe he doesn't exactly approve of waterboarding per se; but there's a scene in Out of the Silent Planet where the all-knowing and god-fearing Oyarsa of Malacandra (read: archangel of Mars) orders the satanic Prof. Weston repeatedly dunked in cold water (off-scene), which is close enough for jazz.
It's slightly less comedic than the similar scene in The Magician's Nephew where Uncle Andrew is planted and watered like a tree, but it makes clear one of the reasons I never liked C. S. Lewis: His ideal characters tend to be bullies, and he stacks the deck so hard for them that it's hard not to root for the Satanic underdog.
He's like Milton (secretly on Satan's side, as Blake said) crossed with a UK football hooligan.
It's slightly less comedic than the similar scene in The Magician's Nephew where Uncle Andrew is planted and watered like a tree, but it makes clear one of the reasons I never liked C. S. Lewis: His ideal characters tend to be bullies, and he stacks the deck so hard for them that it's hard not to root for the Satanic underdog.
He's like Milton (secretly on Satan's side, as Blake said) crossed with a UK football hooligan.