![]() ![]() “The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing-to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from-” ![]() I felt like a bird in a cage when the other birds of its kind are flying home” Everything seemed to be saying, Psyche come! But I couldn’t (not yet) come and I didn’t know where I was to come to. Do you remember? The colour and the smell, and looking across at the Grey Mountain in the distance? And because it was so beautiful, it set me to longing, always longing. It was on happy days when we were up there on the hills, the three of us, with the wind and the sunshine… where you couldn’t see Glome or the palace. ![]() “I have always-at least, ever since I can remember-had a kind of longing for death… It was when I was happiest that I longed most. Psyche is reassuring her sister, telling her that she is not afraid of death but rather feels like it will be the beginning of a true life some part of her has always longed for. In the passage, the protagonist Orual is meeting with her imprisoned sister-Psyche-who is slated to be executed the next day as a sacrifice to the gods. ![]() Lewis's Till We Have Faces (Lewis’s reworking of the Psyche-Cupid myth) that has stayed with me since reading it. I want to talk about a particular passage from C.S. ![]()
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