![]() ![]() 292 of my Harvest 1984 copy).īut what I didn’t expect, and had never before noticed, was how Lewis highlights Orual’s false love by contrasting it with the true, giving, sacrificing love of other characters in the book. Do you not know what the words means? Mine!” (p. The evidence for it is everywhere – perhaps most clearly in Orual’s actual complaint to the gods at the end of Book II, chapter 3, where (for example) she insists, “she was mine. As I made my way through the story with this theme in mind, all kinds of things stood out to me, confirming and enlarging it in my mind. ![]() This time I listened to the book particularly with a view to what I see as its great theme, namely, the exposure of false, possessive love – that is, needy love, thirsty love, love which takes rather than gives, love which desires the other person for one’s own happiness rather than the other person’s happiness in itself. And now I keep seeing new levels of truth in it as I re-read it over the years. I didn’t know how much a story could move or teach me until I read this one. ![]() You can get 2/3 through it – perhaps even 3/4 – and still be thinking, “whats all the fuss about this book?” But then at the end everything comes crashing down on you, and you never look at the world in the same way again. Its one of those books that sneaks up on you. ![]() I’ve been listening to my favorite book this week, C.S. ![]()
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