![]() In spite of going through all the travails of early-20th-century schools-beatings, bullying, bad education-Lewis had a few great teachers and established a love of the fantastical and the romantic in literature. His father was loving but not well attuned to the personalities and needs of his sons and sent them to a series of terrible boarding schools. Lewis’s idyllic early years ended abruptly when his mother died of cancer. He frames the rest of his narrative around his pursuit of this feeling-and his eventual understanding that it can’t be pursued for its own sake it is, in fact, pointing to something better than itself. ![]() ![]() Surges of Joy followed Lewis throughout his life. It was a longing not for the miniature garden for itself, but for something just beyond it-and the feeling was its own reward. ![]() Looking at a miniature garden his brother once made in the lid of a biscuit tin, his young self was overcome with a longing that was at once painful and delicious. It was through another game with his brother that Lewis first got the feeling that he calls “Joy”-the theme around which this book centers. ![]()
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