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192 pages, ebook
First published October 15, 2019
"We want to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as with our own. . . . We demand windows. Literature as Logos is a series of windows, even of doors. One of the things we feel after reading a great work is 'I have got out'. Or from another point of view, 'I have got in'; pierced the shell of some other monad and discovered what it is like inside." 4Reading takes us to new places. It broadens horizons, it makes and shapes us. About an unliterary friend, Lewis writes:
He may be full of goodness and good sense but he inhabits a tiny world. In it, we should be suffocated. The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes are not enough for me. I will see through those of others. (italics the reviewer's). But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. 8-9Helpful thoughts on reading: