Professor Weston (full name Edward Rolles Weston) is arguably one of C. S. Lewis's greatest satanic characters. An eminent physicist on earth, he first appears in Lewis’s Out of the Silent Planet, which is the first in Lewis’s Space Trilogy. He is defeated by the novel's protagonist Elwin Ransom and the Oyarsa, the ruling angel or eldil of Mars (known to its inhabitants as "Malacandra"), but he returns in the second book of the trilogy in an attempt to wreak havoc on Perelandra (Venus), the "new Eden."
In Out of the Silent Planet, Weston first appears with his accomplice, Dick Devine (who later becomes Lord Feverstone in That Hideous Strength), attempting to abduct a mentally impaired youngster named Harry. They plan to take him to Malacandra (Mars) as a human sacrifice. It is then that they are surprised by Elwin Ransom, the main character of the novel, who is known to Devine. Devine persuades Weston to abduct Ransom instead.
It happened once again
You did repeat the same old story
I thought I was a friend
Until we said goodbye
Well, I don't ask of any further explanation
Leave me alone and it'll heal as time goes by
Too many times I ask myself what happened
Yet not a sign to clear my mind, where I go...
Time will find an answer
Time will find an answer
It's back to status quo
I'm on my own
All alone
but I'll be fine some day
I sometimes sit and wonder
Why you're gone, and no one there
How could it go so wrong
From what we used to share
I don't pretend to be the one who understand
There's still a question mark left in an empty hand
Too many times I asked myself what happened
Yet not a sign to clear my mind, where I go...
It's back to status quo
I'm on my own
All alone
but I'll be fine some day
Time will find an answer
Time will find an answer
Submitted by Michael Hack