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Postby lilybear » July 19th, 2006, 7:00 pm

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Postby Karen » July 19th, 2006, 7:38 pm

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. -- Jorge Luis Borges
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Postby Guest » July 19th, 2006, 8:43 pm

I found that one, but I don't think that was it. That one was about the value of classic books vs. modern, I think. The one I'm thinking of was more about what you could get out of a second or third reading of a book.

I'm getting frustrated. Maybe it wasn't Lewis: maybe it was Tolkien or Chesterton?

Thanks for your help!
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Postby Stanley Anderson » July 19th, 2006, 9:13 pm

Try Experiment in Criticsm and the essay On Stories (can't remember what book it is in off the top of my head). I believe he also talks (in a letter or some such -- could it be the three-way interview about science fiction? not sure) about not knowing if he liked a certain book because he hadn't read it enough times yet. It is a subject he mentioned often enough in letters since he certainly recognized its truth. And he suggests it at least implicitly in various places. It's the type of subject that is so pervasive in his thinking and practice that it might be hard to find a definitive passage.

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…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Postby A#minor » July 20th, 2006, 3:58 am

"My brain and this world don't fit each other, and there's an end of it!" - G.K. Chesterton
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re: looking for quote

Postby Guest » July 21st, 2006, 12:34 am

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Postby Someone else » July 21st, 2006, 12:16 pm

I'm pretty sure there's something along those lines in the book Of Other Worlds, a collection of essays by C.S. Lewis on writing. The essay "On Stories" that Stanley mentioned is in this collection. I would probably start with that essay, since it rings a bell for me, too. (I'm posting at work and don't have a copy handy to check myself.)

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Postby Guest » July 21st, 2006, 8:53 pm

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Postby lilybear » July 25th, 2006, 11:05 pm

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