Behind this, almost certainly there lies a circle of the Titanic sort-self dubbed Knight's Templers perpetually in arms to defend a critical Baphomet. We-who are they to them-do not exist as persons at all. We are specimens; specimens of various Age Groups, Types, Climates of Opinion, or Interests, to be exterminated. Deprived of one weapon, they cooly take up another. They are not in the ordinary human sense, meeting us at all; they are merely doing a job of work-spraying(I have heard one use that image) insecticide.-The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis
Poor man-it is not large, lighted rooms, or Champagne, or even scandals about peers and Cabinet Ministers that he wants; it is the sacred little attic or studio, the heads bent together, the fog of tobacco smoke, the delicious knowledge that we-we four or five all huddled beside this stove-are the people who know
The Inner Ring-by C.S. Lewis
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