The Four Loves (continued)
By: C.S. Lewis
"A Friend will, to be sure, prove himself to be also an ally when alliances becomes necessary; will lend or give when we are in need, nurse us in sickness, stand up for us among our enemies, do what he can for our widows and orphans...The stereotyped "Don't mention it" here expresses what we really feel. The mark of perfect Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all. It was a distraction, an anomaly. It was a horrible waste of the time, always too short, that we had together."
"No one cares two pence about anyone's family, profession, class, income, race, or previous history. Of course you will get to know about most of these in the end. But casually. They will come out bit by bit, to furnish an illustration or an analogy, to serve as pegs for an anecdote; never for their own sake. That is the kingliness of Friendship. We meet like sovereign princes of independent states, abroad, on nuetral ground, freed from our contexts."
"In a perfect Friendship this Appreciative love is, I think, often so great and so firmly based that each member of the circle feels, in his secret heart, humbled before all the rest. Sometimes he wonders what he is doing there among his betters. He is lucky beyond desert to be in such company. Especially when the whole group is together, each bringing out all that is best, wisest, or funniest in all the others."
By: C.S. Lewis
"A Friend will, to be sure, prove himself to be also an ally when alliances becomes necessary; will lend or give when we are in need, nurse us in sickness, stand up for us among our enemies, do what he can for our widows and orphans...The stereotyped "Don't mention it" here expresses what we really feel. The mark of perfect Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all. It was a distraction, an anomaly. It was a horrible waste of the time, always too short, that we had together."
"No one cares two pence about anyone's family, profession, class, income, race, or previous history. Of course you will get to know about most of these in the end. But casually. They will come out bit by bit, to furnish an illustration or an analogy, to serve as pegs for an anecdote; never for their own sake. That is the kingliness of Friendship. We meet like sovereign princes of independent states, abroad, on nuetral ground, freed from our contexts."
"In a perfect Friendship this Appreciative love is, I think, often so great and so firmly based that each member of the circle feels, in his secret heart, humbled before all the rest. Sometimes he wonders what he is doing there among his betters. He is lucky beyond desert to be in such company. Especially when the whole group is together, each bringing out all that is best, wisest, or funniest in all the others."
posted by Crescamus in Christos at 10/06/2005 07:21:00 PM
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c.s. lewis wrote the chronicles of narnia. susan was my favorite character, but i hate what happened to her character at the very end of the series (where it went back to the very beginning). my first exposure to his work was watching the lion, the witch and the wardrobe at school. i liked it so much i had to read the book. now that i know he was a catholic writer, i want to go back and read the books and see how perception of what used to be a pure fictional story has changed to a work of fiction full of (moral? religious?) metaphors. i wish that when i was a kid and they had those book orders in school, that i could have afforded to buy all the books instead of only the first two.
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