PHAYMOUS
The girl from many places, in many hearts, with many a splendoured thing.
PHAYMOUS
"His hand can cool the heat of my burning brow, and stay the tumult of my palpitating heart. That glorious right hand which molded the world can new-create my mind. The unwearied hand which bears the earth’s huge pillars up can sustain my spirit. The loving hand which encloses all the saints can cherish me. And the mighty hand which breaks the enemy into pieces can subdue my sins."
"If this succeeds, he can be induced to live, as I have known many humans live, for quite long periods, two parallel lives; he will not only appear to be, but actually be, a different man in each of the circles he frequents…He can be made to take a positive pleasure in the perception that the two sides of his life are inconsistent….you can persuade him, in defiance of conscience, to continue the new acquaintance on the ground that he is, in some unspecified way, doing these people “good” by the mere fact of drinking their cocktails and laughing at their jokes, and that to cease to do so would be “priggish”, “intolerant”, and (of course) “Puritanical”."
C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters: X, pp. 55-56
since when?
kaleidoscope eyes.
God embraces the unlovely.
women, take note
men, take note.