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my mission in life is to get more people to read this book so we can gush over it together. so tender so spacious so clarifying.
“What reconciles me to my own death more than anything else is the image of a place: a place where your bones and mine are buried, thrown, uncovered, together…It is strange that this image of our proximity, concerning as it does mere phosphate of calcium, should bestow a sense of peace. Yet it does. With you I can imagine a place where to be phosphate of calcium is enough.”
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by C.S. Lewis. No contest. Thoughts at the link. Quoted below:
"I read this years ago and did not grasp it. But I felt I’d just read Lewis’ most mature artistic work. Reading it as the person I am now, Till We Have Faces made me ache. Ache with beauty. Ache with grief. Ache with love. Ache with awe.
Lewis drew me deep into the heart of the protagonist where I felt her every joy and enumerable sorrows. Many pages were read through tears. This is a beautiful retelling of the Greek tragedy of Cupid and Psyche from the sister’s point of view. And through Orual’s eyes, Lewis crafts a deep, rich meditation on the nature of love, holiness, man, and gods.
For Orual, holiness is known to her as darkness and the stench of blood. For me, holiness is this book."
Dec 3, 2024
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It’ a beautiful and heart breaking memoir that changed the way I view the world. The perspective this book gave me is incredible, and taught me so much about how to be grateful, and how to live happily in the moment despite the darkness that often surrounds us.
Dec 14, 2024
Made me think, and made me feel so much. Such a beautiful distillation of all the themes Lewis explored in his previous works.
Nov 5, 2024
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hellscape site .. need i say more
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to keep everything everyone’s ever written me! post-its from mum, postcards from family, letters from friends. the little girl up the road once drew a picture of us holding hands and i will treasure it until the day i die.
Jan 29, 2024