“I hope, said the third, that your wanderings in lonely places do not mean that you have any of the romantic virus still in your blood. His name was Mr. Humanist.”

—  Clive Staples Lewis, book The Pilgrim's Regress

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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963

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