“In sum, then, evil is solemn, good is gay.
Evil means starvation, good glows with what Blake calls ‘the lineaments of gratified desire.’
Evil imprisons, good sets free.
Evil is tired, good is full of vigour.
The one says, Let go, lie down, sleep, die; the other, All aboard! Kill the dragon, marry the girl, blow the pipes and beat the drum, let the dance begin.”
–C.S. Lewis, “The Images of Good,” Spenser’s Images of Life, Ed. Alastair Fowler (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967), 95.
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