to cling to it, death

[soso]

Today's Reading

The golden apple of selfhood, thrown among the false gods, became an apple of discord

because they scrambled for it.

* scramble; 2a : to toss or mix together in confusion : to throw into disorder

They did not know the first rule of the holy game, which is that every player must by all means touch the ball and then immediately pass it on.

[To be found with it in your hands] is a fault: to cling to it, death.

But when it flies /to and fro /among the players /too swift for eye to follow,

and the great master Himself leads the revelry, giving Himself eternally to His creatures in the generation,

and back to Himself in the sacrifice, of the Word,

then indeed the eternal dance ‘makes heaven drowsy with the harmony’.

* 부사로 쓰인 swift; a. swiftly or quickly

  의미상 players 가 swift 한 것이 아니고 fly 의 양상이므로 동사수식인 부사가 된다

* 숙어인 부사구; to and fro: Back and forth

[All pains and pleasures () we have known on earth] are early initiations in the movements of that dance:

but the dance itself is strictly incomparable with the sufferings of this present time.

As we draw nearer to its uncreated rhythm, pain and pleasure sink almost out of sight.

There is joy in the dance, but it does not exist /for the sake of joy.

It does not even exist /for the sake of good, or of love.

It is Love Himself, and Good Himself, and therefore happy.

It does not exist for us, but we for it.

From The Problem of Pain
Compiled in A Year with C.S. Lewis

The Problem of Pain. Copyright © 1940, C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Copyright restored © 1996 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. A Year With C.S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works. Copyright © 2003 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.