Saturday, July 01, 2006

a word made breath

[T]he first reading of some literary work is often, to the literary, an experience so momentous that only experiences of love, religion, or bereavement can furnish a standard of comparison. Their whole consciousness is changed. They have become what they were not before.

C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism (Cambridge: 2005), p. 3

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