# “Kill the dragon and marry the girl” by C.S. Lewis

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“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](https://amzn.to/3S9Fw8x),” [_Spenser’s Images of Life_](https://amzn.to/3S9Fw8x),
Ed. Alastair Fowler (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967), 95.

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