22 September 2010
literary quote of the day (9/22/10)
The complaint was the answer. To have heard myself making it was to be answered. Lightly men talk of saying what they mean. Often when he was teaching me to write Greek the Fox would say, "Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words." A glib saying. When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?
C. S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
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One of my favorite literary works of all time...I need to revisit it soon.
I hope you will.
I remember reading this book in your class and it's one that I've tried to read every year since. When I was a senior at Bethel I discovered Chasing Furies and their song "Wait Forever" which brought this book back to mind immediately.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haI4wHEAv_c
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