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“For Aslan had breathed on him at their meeting, and a kind of greatness hung about him.“

Oh, the things you notice on the second read of a good book. The wild romp of Bacchus and Silenus bit here led me to this article: https://au.thegospelcoalition.org/art...

“Wouldn’t it be dreadful if someday in our own world, at home, men started going wild inside, like the animals here, and still looked like men, so that you’d never know which were which?“

No!

“I wonder if, like newborn children, we go through our entire lives looking for a face, longing for a particular gaze that calms and fills us, that loves and welcomes us, that recognizes and runs to greet us. Is that perhaps what this day, Christmas, is all about?“

“A man who loves all women loves no woman. A man who loves only one woman loves all women.“

Wow, that study day was a banger. 🔥

“So, Tony, I remind you, the roots can only grow in stony, difficult ground. The pruner’s shears cut deep. The grapes are crushed and kept in the dark for decades. For the sake of the sweetness. For this very moment.“

“but in certain years, grapes of a particular vineyard and particular vines are deemed to be of exceptional quality. We call these “vintage“ They’re not blended with anything else. They stand alone.

Vintage is God‘s work. A grower cannot make it happen, and no one knows when a crop will be of such rare excellence.”

“Dark amber eyes that sparkled with lamplight“

“The thought of water filled Theo‘s mind. The incessance of its movement.

The hidden life beneath the surface.
The utter dependence of all living things on its presence.
The gentle beauty and surprising strength of its flow.
Its surrender to forces about and around it: gravity, temperature, ingratitude.
The deathlessness of it.”

A flaw at last! A good ol’ “bilingual outburst.” Ha! Adding these to my repertoire of international insults for the idiotas I encounter.