February 25, 2012

The Drill Drills On

"Why do I make room in my mind for such filth and nonsense? Do I hope that if feeling disguises itself as thought I shall feel less? Aren't all these notes the senseless writhings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is itching we can do with suffering except to suffer it? Who still thinks there is some device (if only he could find it) which will make pain not to be pain. It doesn't really matter if you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on." -C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

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