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Lewis suggests that the author’s role is a window through which the reader sees the world depicted in the story.⁵⁷ “A poet does what no one else can do: what, perhaps, no other poet can do; but he does not express his personality. His own personality is his starting point, and his limitation: it is analogous to the position of a window” and, as Lewis reminds his readers, “windows are not put there that you may study windows; rather that you might forget windows. And if you find that you are forced to attend to the glass rather than the landscape, then either the window or your eye is faulty.”⁵⁸ One looks through the window to see beyond it into the garden. Similarly, one looks through the author’s eyes to see the story depicted. It is the story to which the reader ought to attend, not to the author.