“A strict allegory is like a puzzle with a solution: a great romance is like a flower whose smell reminds you of something you can't quite place. I think the something is 'the whole quality of life as we actually experience it.”

— Clive Staples Lewis

C. S. Lewis' Letters to Children – letter to Lucy (11 September 1958)

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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963

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