Eustace cynically dismisses Ramandu stating, "In our world...a star is a huge ball of flaming gas.”
Ramandu replies, “Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is but only what it is made of..."
In The Dawn Treader, Eustace complains about a painting of a ship, "the question is," said Edmund, "whether it doesn't make things worse, looking for at a Narnian ship when you can't get there." "Even looking is better than nothing," said Lucy.