December 2011
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because...
– C.S. Lewis (via ted1986)
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According to a 1967 interview with the New York...
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the...
– C.S. Lewis (via toralinda)
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December 7th, 1929
C.S. Lewis is lent J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Lay of Leithian’ (The Tale of Beren and Luthien from The Silmarillion).
He wrote to the Inklings saying, “I can quite honestly say that it has been ages since I have had an evening of such delight: and the personal interest of reading a friend’s work had very little to do with it.”
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the...
– C.S. Lewis (via quote-book)
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The Inklings was an informal literary discussion group associated with the University of Oxford, England, for nearly two decades between the early 1930s and late 1949. The Inklings were literary enthusiasts who praised the value of narrative in fiction, and encouraged the writing of fantasy.
The more regular members of the Inklings, many of them academics at the University, included J. R. R....