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Friday, December 09, 2005
On C.S. Lewis' Brilliance As A Writer
From Alan Jacobs, in a book excerpt in Christianity Today:
"What made him write this way, and why it is such a good thing that he did--these are hard topics to talk about without seeming sentimental. Yet they are necessary topics. In most children, but in relatively few adults, we see a willingness to be delighted to the point of self-abandonment. This free and full gift of oneself to a story is what produces the state of enchantment. Why do we lose the ability to give ourselves this way? Perhaps adolescence introduces the fear of being deceived, the fear of being caught believing in what others have ceased to believe. To be naive, to be gullible--these are the great humiliations of adolescence."
Brent 4:46 AM
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