From That Hideous Strength:
"The beauty of the female is the root of joy to the female as well as to the male, and it is no accident that the goddess of love is older and stronger then the god. To desire the desiring of her own beauty is the vanity of Lilith, but to desire the enjoying of her beauty is the obedience of Eve, and to both it is in the lover that the beloved tastes her own delightfulness. As obedience is the stairway of pleasure, so humility is the..."
--C. S. Lewis
Ed: Interesting how this quote within a quote was interrupted...
2 comments:
Just got to this part again and looked it up. The Space Trilogy is so underrated. Got through the Narnia series recently which was a delight as well. These are the types of books that bring back a sense of enchantment that the modern world is missing, in the sense that the mystical world is all actually real and we've been deluded by materialism to forget.
YES! I agree completely.
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