Quoting C. S. Lewis, a letter to his good friend Owen Barfield, 1940

The real difficulty is, isn’t it, to adapt one’s steady beliefs about tribulation to this particular tribulation; for the particular, when it arrives, always seems so peculiarly intolerable.

— C. S. Lewis, a letter to his good friend Owen Barfield, 1940

4:51pm on November 1, 2024 from Istanbul, Turkey.


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