Despite the horror, we survivors were endowed with a will to survive. Or instinct. Or maybe it was faith.
C.S. Lewis had come to demand of his nightly prayers a "realization," "a certain vividness of the imagination and the affectations" _ a sure recipe for sleeplessness and misery.
The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
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C.S. Lewis had come to demand of his nightly prayers a "realization," "a certain vividness of the imagination and the affectations" _ a sure recipe for sleeplessness and misery.
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