![]() Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Far from having more of Ronald, having him ‘to myself’ now that Charles is away, I have less of Ronald. Now that Charles is dead, I shall never again see Ronald’s reaction to a specifically Charles joke. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity I want other lights than my own to show all his facets. “In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. This was Lewis’s observation after Williams died: Tolkien and author Charles Williams, who died unexpectedly. Four Loves made it onto my reading list because of an excerpt I once read about Lewis and his group of friends, the Inklings. ![]()
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