Even the great C.S. Lewis was powerfully captivated by the mysterious legends of hollow earth.

There is one peculiar passage from the silver chair of the Chronicles of Narnia,

where Lewis provides us with a small glimpse into Bism, a secret world which lies deep within the earth.

Are there other lands still lower down? asked Eustace.

Oh yes, Your Honor, said Golg.

Lovely places, what we call the land of Bism.

This country where we are now, the witch's country, is what we call the shallow lands.

It's a good deal too near the surface to suit us.

Ah, you might almost as well be living outside, on the surface itself.

Down there, said Golg, I could show you real gold, real silver, real diamonds.

Bosh, said Jill rudely, as if we didn't know that we're below the deepest mines even here.

Yes, said Golg,

I've heard of those little scratches in the crust that you top dwellers call mines.

But that's where you get dead gold, dead silver, dead gems.

Down in Bism, we have alive and growing.

There I'll pick up bunches of rubies that you can eat and squeeze you a cup of diamond juice.

You won't care much about fingering the cold dead treasures of your shallow minds after you have tasted the live ones of Bism.

My father went to the world's end, said Rillian thoughtfully.

It must be a marvelous thing if his son went to the bottom of the world.

Here we are.

C.S. Lewis, absolutely.

I mean, some would say that this is fantastical in fiction,

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