19 June 2024

Surrender.


The first demand any work of any art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. (There is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out.)

C.S. Lewis, from The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others’ Eyes

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