A while back I was feeling kind of down, and felt I needed a kind of bedtime story. I didn’t want to read a chronicle of Narnia, since I had read all of them several times already. So I decided to read That Hideous Strength, which I had read twice, a long time ago (I know it sounds strange to think of THS as a bedtime time story, but it was a long time since I had read it, and I felt comfortable being in Lewis’s hands). I was not disappointed, although the scene towards the end, where all the animals go on a rampage, killing the denizens of the N.I.C.E. was, I think, way too gory – this was also my reaction the very first time I read THS, many, many years ago.
Any other reactions to THS, or any other Lewis works that have brought you comfort?
Dimitry
“Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. Love will last forever.” (1 Corinthians 13: 4-8)