![]() ![]() Lewis’ first glimpse of “Joy” was when his brother Warnie showed him a garden that he had built of moss and twigs on top of a biscuit tin. If one tried to manufacture this emotion or hold onto it, it would simply remain illusive or slip away it came of its own volition, which indicated to Lewis that this desire pointed to something beyond himself. During his childhood, Lewis experienced brief yet keen feelings of this profound yearning. ![]() While Lewis gives an engaging description of his life as a boy, first in Ireland, and then later in England, his main goal is to give the reader little windows into the experience that he called “Joy”, which one can equate with the German word, “ Sehensucht” translated into English as an “intense longing”. “I was born in the winter of 1898 at Belfast, the son of a solicitor and of a clergyman’s daughter.”Īnd so begins the autobiography of one of the most prolific writer’s of his time, C.S. ![]()
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