![]() ![]() The pattern of all losses mirrors the pattern of the gravest losses. Perhaps you have merely wasted time, and seethe with frustration because you can’t recall it. Perhaps you have just lost yourself on your way through life, lost your chances or your reputation or your integrity, or chosen to lose bad memories by pushing them into a personal and portable tomb. Even if you have not experienced a “front line” bereavement, such as the loss of partner, parent or child, you have certainly lost something you value: a marriage or a job, an internal organ or some aspect of mind or body that defines who you are. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” With his first line, CS Lewis’s A Grief Observed reacquaints his reader with the physiology of mourning he brings into each mouth the common taste of private and personal loss. ![]()
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