imagination is ‘the image-making, fictionalizing, integrative power’.15 Both must be present ‘in a balanced personality’, Lewis believed: the ‘clarity and strength of reason’ complementing the ‘beauty and creativity of imagination’.16 Lewis saw that myth has the capacity to achieve and present this balanced perspective: by ‘joining the outside view with the inside view, contemplation with enjoyment, and the rational with the imaginative’.17 In sum, ‘Imagination, for Lewis, can be defined as the mental,