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Source Help Needed - Thank You

PostPosted: December 11th, 2009, 9:12 pm
by JSD
I am trying to find the location of the illustration Lewis uses – when he speaks of yearning for a good vacation, happy marriage, etc. and it never matching up with expectation. The idea was that the total thing never arrived.

JSD

Re: Source Help Needed - Thank You

PostPosted: December 11th, 2009, 9:45 pm
by Karen

Re: Source Help Needed - Thank You

PostPosted: December 12th, 2009, 6:55 am
by JSD
Thank you Karen. That's not it. I am familiar with the various parts of Lewis' works on the argument from desire generally. He is expressing more this idea: that when you have a hope for some new activity that comes up in life the thing itself, the fullness of the thing, never arrives. A few years ago it caused me to write an email to a friend applying the passage to Christmas, how all the appeals to the myth of Christmas are never born out in reality. That is the best I can do with it until I see it again, and looking for it is driving me crazy. The passage I am remembering seems to me an elaboration on the simple line in A Grief Observed where he talks about cancer never actually arriving, there are just the days with their good and bad parts. This is not the idea, but a related one.

Re: Source Help Needed - Thank You

PostPosted: December 12th, 2009, 5:43 pm
by Karen
Sven, who probably knows Lewis' works better than anyone on this forum, may be able to help.

*pages Sven*

Re: Source Help Needed - Thank You

PostPosted: December 12th, 2009, 7:33 pm
by Sven

Re: Source Help Needed - Thank You

PostPosted: December 13th, 2009, 8:24 pm
by Karen