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[white_hart]

I saw this quote from CS Lewis's "On Living in an Atomic Age" on FB (or maybe Twitter?) a while ago, and it comes to mind again today, for obvious reasons.

If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things - praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts - not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.

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[cosmolinguist]

I like this.

[white_hart]

I'm glad it spoke to other people too. (I think I saw it when T***p was posturing about North Korea, and nuclear war seemed like more of a threat than it had done since the end of the 80s, and it just felt like such a good way of looking at things. Of course, it doesn't stop the fear and anxiety, but it helps.)

[miss_s_b]

<3

[white_hart]

I'd been thinking of it as I walked to work anyway, and then I saw your post about buying gig tickets as a way of standing up to the utter wankers who did this, and dug out the exact quote to post :-)

[miss_s_b]

♡

[cmcmck]

Lewis had it about right too!

[white_hart]

He was a ghastly old MCP in a lot of ways, but this is so right it reminds me of why I loved his books so much when I was a kid.

[maia]

Yes.

[el_staplador]

Yes. Very much yes.

[makamu]

I think I might break the DW comment limit with the number of "Yes!"s I want to type in response to this! Thank you for sharing that quote

[callmemadam]

Excellent.

[swingandswirl]

I have very little patience for Narnia, but man, did Lewis hit the nail on the head, here.

[white_hart]

He was a ghastly old MCP, and utterly problematic in so very many ways, but this is spot on.

[swingandswirl]

That is just about the best succinct description of Lewis ever.

I think my favourite lightbulb moment re: Narnia (especially as someone from a former British colony) was someone pointing out the utter WTF of the natives just accepting being ruled by a bunch of children, and foreigners, to boot, because a talking lion had said so.