Posted on 02/20/2019 9:52:46 PM PST by BlackVeil
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Chesterton, who was not an Inkling, but influenced Lewis directly and was also admired by Tolkien, referred to Christianity as true mythology.
I read that in college in the late 70s
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I’ve always thought that the ability to imagine and create from imagination is what makes us ‘in His image’.
I think ‘Dune’ comes close.
Chesterton wrote one of my all-time favorite poems:
The Donkey
When fishes flew and forests walked
And figs grew upon thorn
Some moment when the moon was blood
Then surely I was born.
With monstrous head and sickening cry
And ears like errant wings
The devils walking parody
On all four-footed things.
The tattered outlaw of the earth,
Of ancient crooked will;
Starve, scourge, deride me: I am dumb,
I keep my secret still.
Fools! For I also had my hour;
One far fierce hour and sweet:
There was a shout about my ears,
And palms before my feet.
I like that one too
I’ll check it out.
I care most about the words, and how perceiving their meaning sends a chill down your spine, makes the hairs of your neck stand up.
Robert Graves understood this...true poetry acts almost as a magical incantation.
I think that’s why so many are partial to the KJV.
Another of my favorites:
Pied Beauty
Glory be to God for dappled things
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.
-Gerard Manley Hopkins
I care most about the words, and how perceiving their meaning sends a chill down your spine, makes the hairs of your neck stand up.
LOL!
I will.
Huh. That’s creepy.
I need to go back and re-read my Arthur Machen.
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