[Book Club] C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce, FINAL Session (Chapters 12 - END) ft. Timothy Gordon
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ποΈ 13 March 2023
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| 0:30.0 | OK. Ladies and gentlemen. I feel like I've just seen so many of you. Where did you all come from? Oh, it's just our little private excursion now. Private private private. Nobody's allowed in. OK. Well, I have to just say that Timothy Gordon, he has something that has come up for him. Something pretty serious. |
| 1:00.0 | To be honest, and he can't be here tonight. It's part of my kick myself in the butt. Kind of a moment because if it weren't for my queasy little stomach last Wednesday, this would have had a nice tight four week bow. Put on the whole experience. And it was so smooth and so great. And I'm sorry to say that Tim could not be here tonight. And he really took this last two or three weeks. And he really took this last two or three weeks. And he really took this last two or three weeks. And he really took this last two or three weeks. And he really took this last two or three weeks. |
| 1:30.0 | And he really took this last three chapters. He loved these last two or three chapters. So hopefully he'll be able to pass along some of his thoughts. And we'll get on with that soon. But for now, it's you and I. We have about an hour together. And what I think I'm going to do is I'm going to read through. I'm going to read through the chapter. The chapter summaries. I'm going to read through the chapter summaries. I'm going to read through the chapter summaries. I'm going to read through the chapter summaries. |
| 2:00.0 | I'm going to read through the chapter summaries. |
| 2:30.0 | Umeet this woman who was obviously a doding wife |
| 2:35.0 | and a person who led with love |
| 2:38.9 | with a heart-wide open went throughout life |
| 2:41.2 | and she was attached to this heavyweight down-dragging |
| 2:47.9 | tormenting kind of a husband. |
| 2:50.5 | And Frank the husband. |
| 2:53.8 | Frank the husband is represented as a dwarf |
| 2:57.1 | like carnival like creature who is holding on to a larger tragedy in. |
| 3:06.6 | So a very, a very dramatic, dramatic, self-centered person, a character |
| 3:19.8 | that is attached to Frank who is slowly and surely shrinking away to nothing. |
| 3:25.6 | And as he's shrinking away, obviously, you get the, you get the, you get the understanding |
| 3:30.9 | that he is slowly disappearing from heaven and he is slowly choosing his hell. |
| 3:38.8 | He's choosing hell because he won't let go of all of the insecurities, all the insecurities, |
| 3:46.1 | all the manipulation, all of the ways that he manipulated people on earth, including his wife, |
| 3:53.1 | who has ascended to such a hero-like status in the short time that she has been in heaven, |
| 4:01.2 | that when the, when Lewis is there with his guide, |
| 4:08.0 | he's there with his guide in the beginning, he's, they see this procession coming into town |
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