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December 18, 2015
“His education had been neither scientific nor classical – merely “Modern.”
The severities both of abstraction and of high human tradition had passed him by: and he had neither peasant shrewdness nor aristocratic honour to help him. He was a man of straw, a glib examinee in subjects that require no exact knowledge (he had always done well on Essays and General Papers) and the first hint of a real threat to his bodily life knocked him sprawling.” – C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength [Via HappyAcres]Posted by gerardvanderleun at December 18, 2015 8:05 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Surfing the ocean of significance he failed to plumb its depths. To each his own.
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at December 19, 2015 8:12 AM