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21 " Literature—above all, poetry—was Lewis’s firewall, keeping the chaotic and meaningless external world at a safe distance, and shielding him from the existential devastation it wreaked on others. "
― Alister E. McGrath , C. S. Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet
22 " village.” The scholar, Lewis declares, has “lived in many times” and can thus challenge the automatic presumption of finality inherent in present judgements and trends: We need intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has any magic about it, but because we cannot study the future, and yet need something to set against the present, to remind us that the basic assumptions have been quite different in different periods and that much which seems certain to the uneducated is merely temporary fashion.58 "
23 " helped Lewis along in the final stage of what the medieval writer Bonaventure of Bagnoregio (1221–1274) describes as the “journey of the mind to God. "
24 " As Lewis later put it, “All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. "
25 " Dante’s Inferno "