unliterary man defined one reads books only. . . . enjoy a story fully — C.S. Lewis, Stories: Essays Literature

C.S. Lewis On Stories: Other Essays on Literature

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An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. . . . We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties. Till then, it is like wasting great wine on a ravenous natural thirst which merely wants cold wetness.

C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

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