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The Medieval themes in this book are wonderfully done as always in Lewis's work. As for the alchemy (medieval literary alchemy of course, not the mixed up modern idea of it) it was apparently there, I just don't know enough about it yet to know exact
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"Despite my constant claim that I will read "That Hideous Strength" whenever I have time, I seem to always be returning to this volume instead." — Apr 18, 2026 08:42AM
"Despite my constant claim that I will read "That Hideous Strength" whenever I have time, I seem to always be returning to this volume instead." — Apr 18, 2026 08:42AM
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Coraline
― Coraline
“To know yourself was not egotism but the gateway to all virtue... It is the great condition of success in the spiritual warfare. For the chief enemy is within ourselves and if we do not understand him we cannot be victorious.”
― The Elizabethan World Picture: A Study of the Idea of Order in the Age of Shakespeare, Donne and Milton
― The Elizabethan World Picture: A Study of the Idea of Order in the Age of Shakespeare, Donne and Milton
“An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. . . . We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties. Till then, it is like wasting great wine on a ravenous natural thirst which merely wants cold wetness.”
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
“I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.”
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
“Nothing exists without music; for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tones of that harmony.”
― The Elizabethan World Picture: A Study of the Idea of Order in the Age of Shakespeare, Donne and Milton
― The Elizabethan World Picture: A Study of the Idea of Order in the Age of Shakespeare, Donne and Milton
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