Tag: C. S. Lewis

• Reading as Escape

  [All] reading whatever is an escape. It involves a temporary transference of the mind from our actual surroundings to things merely imagined or conceived. This happens when we read history or science no less than when we read fictions. All such escape is from the same thing: immediate, concrete actuality. The important question is what […]

  attycortes

  February 22, 2010

  Reading

  C. S. Lewis, Reading