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Puddleglum
Puddleglum is a fictional character in the children's fantasy series "The Chronicles of Narnia" by C. S. Lewis. Puddleglum appears in "The Silver Chair", in which he is a principal character. He also appears briefly at the end of "The Last Battle". Puddleglum is (by his own account) an uncommonly cheerful marsh-wiggle; however, as marsh-wiggles are best known for their pessimism, he is still rather exceptionally gloomy, described by other characters as a "wet blanket"
answering the question, "What might Christ become like, if there really were a world like Narnia and He chose to be incarnate and die and rise again in that world as He actually has done in ours?' This is not allegory at all." While not allegorical, Narnia does present significant parallels with elements from Christianity.
Lewis is perhaps using Puddleglum to give a somewhat existential statement of faith when he writes, "Suppose we "have" only dreamed, or made up, all of those things—