"Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.
Unless, of course, you can literally believe all that stuff about familiy reunions "on the further shore," pictured in entirely earthly terms. ... We know it couldn't be like that. Reality never repeats. The exact same thing is never taken away and given back. ... There are cigars in Heaven. For that is what we should all like. The happy past restored.
And that, just that, is what I cry out for, with mad, midnight endearments and entreaties spoken into the empty air."
C. S. Lewis, A Greif Observed, the Bantam edition, s 28-29; sitert fra Robert C Neville, The Truth of Broken Symbols, ix (som Kari-Mette W Hidle, i en godhet som jeg knapt har sett maken til i staten, har gitt meg)
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