Nice connection! And I like Isabella's point about manifestly here because I think it gets at another aspect of the Heng reading you mention--racial (and in this case, orientalist) differences are understood to be essential and entirely self-evident. I'd be interested to hear, Trammell, if you think the narrative has changed at all in the move from the Middle Ages to the present or if C.S. Lewis is still operating in the same mode Heng analyzes.