“These men ask me to believe they can read between the lines of the old texts; the evidence is their obvious inability to read the lines themselves. They claim to see fern-seed and can’t see the elephant ten yards away in broad daylight.”

By C.S. Lewis from a book entitles “Fern Seed and Elephants.”

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‘Bleat’ comes from the drifting plea of lambs and their kin everywhere, and from an essay by C.S. Lewis called “Fern Seed and Elephants.” Lewis, then a layperson in the Church of England, was appealing to his priestly shepherds in the form of a lowly sheep. Lewis structured his essay around four ‘bleats’ which one might characterize as ‘humble complaints’. After all, a sheep just wants a decent supply of nourishment protection from (or at least advanced warning of) wild beasts, and participation in a healthy flock, right?