white dog and black dog | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Thu, 14 Nov 2013 01:02:20 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg white dog and black dog | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 Walking Away from the Dreaming Spires; Walking Away from Joy https://anitamathias.com/2012/12/10/walking-away-from-the-dreaming-spires-walking-away-from-joy/ https://anitamathias.com/2012/12/10/walking-away-from-the-dreaming-spires-walking-away-from-joy/#comments Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:26:59 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=40201 When C. S. Lewis went up to Oxford for his entrance interview, he accidentally walked away from the golden, gleaming, dreaming spires towards the "mean", grimy suburb of Botley. He sees that as a metaphor for his whole life until he became a Christian--choosing the second-rate instead of the most beautiful, most noble, most golden!

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