Posted by j on August 02, 2004 at 13:09:06:
This is another post quoting C.S. Lewis, this time from Perelandra, the second book in his Space Trilogy. I apologize in advance that this is quoted out of context, but perhaps this is might serve as a "teaser" for the book.
"He [Ransom, the protagonist] had always disliked the people who encored a favourite air in the opera -- 'That just spoils it' had been his comment. But this now appeared to him as a principle of far wider application and deeper moment. This itch to have things over again, as if life were a film that could be unrolled twice or even made to work backwards . . . was it possibly the root of all evil? No: of course the love of money was called that. But money itself -- perhaps one valued it chiefly as a defence against chance, a security for being able to have things over again, a means of arresting the unrolling of the film."
- C.S. Lewis