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Merlinus Ambrosius (Merlin)
Professor Frost is the only member of the N.I.C.E. besides Wither to know the true nature of the Head and the demonic Macrobes. Frost aligns himself with the Macrobes in their attempt to wipe out the “dead-weight” of humanity with a world war, and he invites Mark to join him in this endeavor. This invitation briefly tempts Mark, whose chief desire is to be included in an in-group. Frost uses this weakness to manipulate Mark, but Mark nevertheless comes to hate Frost and resists Frost’s attempts to indoctrinate Mark into the N.I.C.E. When Frost witnesses Merlin empowered by the Oyéresu, he cannot cope with proof of divinity and burns down the N.I.C.E. headquarters in an act of suicide. As he dies, he rejects his last opportunity to save his soul.
Professor Augustus Frost Quotes in That Hideous Strength
The That Hideous Strength quotes below are all either spoken by Professor Augustus Frost or refer to Professor Augustus Frost. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 15
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He was himself, he felt, as helpless as the wooden Christ. As he thought this, he found himself looking at the crucifix in a new way––neither as a piece of wood nor a monument of superstition but as a bit of history. Christianity was nonsense, but one did not doubt that the man had lived and had been executed thus by the Belbury of those days. And that, as he suddenly saw, explained why this image, though not itself an image of the Straight or Normal, was yet in opposition to crooked Belbury. It was a picture of what happened when the Straight met the Crooked, a picture of what the Crooked did to the Straight––what it would do to him if he remained straight. It was, in a more emphatic sense than he had yet understood, a cross.
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Professor Augustus Frost Quotes in That Hideous Strength
The That Hideous Strength quotes below are all either spoken by Professor Augustus Frost or refer to Professor Augustus Frost. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 15
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He was himself, he felt, as helpless as the wooden Christ. As he thought this, he found himself looking at the crucifix in a new way––neither as a piece of wood nor a monument of superstition but as a bit of history. Christianity was nonsense, but one did not doubt that the man had lived and had been executed thus by the Belbury of those days. And that, as he suddenly saw, explained why this image, though not itself an image of the Straight or Normal, was yet in opposition to crooked Belbury. It was a picture of what happened when the Straight met the Crooked, a picture of what the Crooked did to the Straight––what it would do to him if he remained straight. It was, in a more emphatic sense than he had yet understood, a cross.
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