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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. Over their irregular roofs would fall throughout the seasons, the shadows of time-eaten buttresses, of broken and lofty turrets, and, most enormous of all, the shadow of the Tower of Flints. These dwellings, by ancient law, were granted this chill intimacy with the stronghold that loomed above them. They sprawled over the sloping earth, each one half way over its neighbour until, held back by the castle ramparts, the innermost of these hovels laid hold on the great walls, clamping themselves thereto like limpets to a rock. Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around its outer walls. ![]() ![]() Lewis recounts and remembers his early years with a measure of amusement sometimes mixed with pain. Overall, the book contains less detail concerning specific events than a typical autobiography, although it is not devoid of information about his life. It must have the stab, the pang, the inconsolable longing." "Joy is distinct not only from pleasure in general but even from aesthetic pleasure. He is struck with "stabs of joy" throughout his life. ![]() This Joy was so intense for something so good and so high up it could not be explained with words. His aim was instead to identify and describe the events surrounding his accidental discovery of and consequent search for the phenomenon he labeled "Joy", his best translation of the idea of (German) Sehnsucht. Lewis' purpose in writing was not primarily historical. The work describes Lewis's life from very early childhood (born 1898) until his conversion to Christianity in 1931, but does not go beyond that date. Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life is a partial autobiography published by C. ![]() |