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In his Ariopagitica, John Milton wrote, quote,

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master's spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose

to a life beyond life, end quote. His point was that a great book captured the essence of a great

mind, making it accessible to all who would take up and read. Without books, how would we know the genius of

Augustine in his search for the city of God? The bright lights of Dante, Pascal, MacDonald, O'Connor,

Bunyan, and Tolkien would be long darkened without this gift. But not only would we fail to know

these great men in their minds, without books, we would fail to know ourselves.

In an experiment in criticism, C.S. Lewis made this point, quote, but in reading great literature,

I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad

eyes, but it is still I who see, here as in worship, in love, in moral

action, and in knowing I transcend myself, and am never more myself than when I do, end quote.

Join us in this episode of Brightheart as we walk through our 2024 reading and look ahead to 2025.

Welcome back to Bright Heart, 2025.

We are here to finally talk about books, wrangled Brian into it.

Can you sing more?

No.

That was good.

No, no.

That was really good.

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