Episode 64: Til We Have Faces, Ch. 6-7
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Today on The Literary Life Podcast our hosts Angelina, Cindy and Thomas discuss chapters 6-7 of C. S. Lewis\\u2019 mythical retelling Til We Have Faces. Before we get started, we want you to know about Cindy\\u2019s Morning Time Q&A on September 23. Register at CindyRollins.net. They open the discussion this week talking about Lewis\\u2019 writings on love and jealousy. Angelina points out similarities to this story and other classical myths and even Spenser\\u2019s Faerie Queene. They also talk about Orual\\u2019s desires as opposed to Psyche\\u2019s expectations.
Cindy mentioned Peter Kreeft\\u2019s talk on Til We Have Faces a couple of times. Here is the link to that audio for those who are interested in listening to that.
Commonplace Quotes:
The stage is an epitome, a better likeness of the world, with the dull part left out.
William Hazlitt
The motto was Pax, but the word was set in a circle of thorns. Pax: peace, but what a strange peace, made of unremitting toil and effort, seldom with a seen result; subject to constant interruptions, unexpected demands, short sleep at nights, little comfort, sometimes scant food; beset with disappointments and usually misunderstood; yet peace all the same, undeviating, filled with joy and gratitude and love. \\u201cIt is My own peace I give unto you.\\u201d Not, notice, the world\\u2019s peace.
Rumer Godden
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. . . . I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; . . . I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.
C. S. Lewis
A Woman Homer Sung
by William Butler Yeats
If any man drew near
When I was young,
I thought, \\u201cHe holds her dear,\\u2019
And shook with hate and fear.
But O! \\u2019twas bitter wrong
If he could pass her by
With an indifferent eye.
Whereon I wrote and wrought,
And now, being grey,
I dream that I have brought
To such a pitch my thought
That coming time can say,
\\u201cHe shadowed in a glass
What thing her body was.\\u2019
For she had fiery blood
When I was young,
And trod so sweetly proud
As \\u2019twere upon a cloud,
A woman Homer sung,
That life and letters seem
But an heroic dream.
Book List:
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In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden
Christian Behavior by C. S. Lewis
The Four Loves by C. S. Lewis
Surprised by Joy by C. S. Lewis
The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
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