I used to have part of this passage as an e-mail signature. It's from one of my favorite books, "The Last Battle" by C.S. Lewis. I believe they are the last words, actually. Lewis' language (yet again) paints a vibrant, beautiful picture -- this one of eternity. It makes me long. And it makes me so glad this life is not the end.
" 'The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.'
And as He spoke, He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after.
But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at least they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before."
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I love this passage. I haven't read it before. Thanks for sharing.
I love it too. C.S. Lewis had such a gift.
Jon's finally reading the series. Or, more accurately, he listened to three of the books on CD and he's reading the rest.
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