The following passage is one of those that just grabbed me when I read it.
I marked it & go back & ponder it every now & then.
Tonight was one of those times.
"My fear was now of another kind. I felt sure that the creature was what we call "good", but I wasn't sure whether I liked "goodness" so much as I had supposed. This is a terrible experience. As long as what you are afraid of is something evil, you may still hope that the good may come to your rescue. But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that it also is dreadful? How if food itself turns out to be very thing you can't eat, and home the very place you can't live, and your comforter the person who makes you uncomfortable? Then, indeed, there is no rescue possible: the last card has been played.
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Been there...
Done that...
Sigh!
So that we may boldly say, " The Lord is my helper and I will not fear what man can do unto me ".
Heb.13:6
I had to Google it to remember exactly where it was from, even though that is one of my favorite trilogies - sad, eh? I have more sympathy for the series' weaknesses as well given that it was before any type of space-travel was accomplished, and I think the first two books are the best. I've been reading Isaac Asimov lately as well and these pre-space-travel robots and space travel novels are incredibly interesting.
I was fortunate enough to have an English professor in university who was familiar with the series and I was able to review, critique, and examine V2V for an essay, which made me appreciate it all the more.
I read The Great Divorce for the first time as well last week. I find Chesterton reminds me quite a bit of Lewis's earlier writings also.
There was an essay Chesterton wrote once called "The Red Town" that's one of my very favorite pieces of writing - and say thought-provoking also.
I'm rambling, I know.. overall... it's a great piece of writing, and in the end, experience and thought regarding it trumps any critique I've drummed up.
Asimov's Foundation series was one of my favourite reads.
What an excellent quote.
Is that from the Out of the Silent Planet series?
That's depressing.
Patti:
yes - from early in the second book
good quote, dad! sometimes we find an exquisite truth hidden in literature. i like the salem's lot quote that reads,
The cross,the bread and wine, the confessional, only symbols. Without faith the cross is only wood, the bread baked wheat, the wine sour grapes. If you had cast the cross away, you should have beaten me another night. In a way, I had hoped it might be so. It has been long since I had met a opponent of any real worth. The boy makes ten of you, false priest."
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