from the age of six-for half his life-he had believed devoutly in all things narnian ; until , last year , rereading the voyage of the dawn treader for perhaps the hundredth time , it had occurred to him that the transformation of the unpleasant eustace scrub into a dragon and his subsequent conversion to belief in aslan the lion was terribly similar to the conversion of st. paul on the road to damascus ; if his blindness were a dragon ...