C.S. Lewis on the Timeless Alchemy of Myth, Anamnesis, and Creative Inspiration

We all need Elves in our lives who would speak to us the words from beyond the veil of the world so we can be cured of dumbness.

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In his introduction to George McDonald’s Phantastes, C.S. Lewis wrote about the nature of Myth,

“Myth does not essentially consist in words at all… If the story is anywhere embodied in words, that is almost an accident… What really delights and nourishes me is a particular pattern of events, which would equally delight and nourish if it had…