(Ransom has defeated Professor Edward Weston in a brutal fight, the doctor has fled to two waiting fish* and Ransom follows him. Weston has called down a malevolent force into him and is probably not alive as we understand life. Ransom was brought to Perelandra (Venus) in order to prevent The Fall upon that planet. Weston, the Un-man, has become a living corpse spouting nonsense and malevolent obscenities when he can be understood at all). But this is very foolish," said the Un-man. "Do you not know who I am?" "I know what you are," said Ransom. "Which of them doesn't matter." "And you think, little one," it answered, "that you can fight with me? You think He will help you, perhaps? Many thought that. I've known Him longer than you, little one. They all think He's going to help them--till they come to their senses screaming recantations too late in the middle of the fire, mouldering in concentration camps, ...