A couple of quick things as I skimmed through this week's chapters:
1) Ransom's attempts to communicate with the hross reminded me of how hard it is to bridge the gaps between East and Western Christendom.....at least in Ransom's case, he didn't have the added confusion of using the same words only with radically different meanings.
2) I liked this sentence in the middle of chapter 9: "The love of knowledge is a kind of madness." I concur.