This change allows Lewis to explore not only romantic love (eros) existing between Psyche and her god-lover Cupid, but also affection (storge) and friendship (philia). Revealing what he recognized as the story's intrinsic Christian message, Lewis tells the story from the point of view of neither of the two main characters but from that of one of the original myth's villains, Orual, the sister of Psyche. In Till We Have Faces, more than in any other work of fiction, Lewis delved into the world of classical myth, retelling the very well-known story of Cupid and Psyche. This last work, written in the mid-1950s, has been acknowledged by Lewis as "his best" (though at other times he said Perelandra, the second book of the space trilogy was his best), and he dedicated it to his wife, Joy Davidman (Gresham). My long night talk with Dyson and Tolkien had a good deal to do with it." As a Christian, Lewis wrote works of theology, literary criticism, and fiction, the latter almost always connected with myth in one form or another, whether written for children, such as the Narnia series, or for adults, such as his space trilogy and Till We Have Faces.
After this conversation, Lewis, always a lover of myth, wrote to a friend: "I have just passed on from believing in God to definitely believing in Christ-in Christianity. It is natural, Tolkien argued, that other myths reflect this story, for they spring out of the innate human longing for it. At that time an agnostic, Lewis was deeply interested in Tolkien's argument that, while Christianity's central story bears a resemblance to various myths of a dying and rising god, it is unique in being "the true myth," the one instance where the story for which humanity has a deep longing to be true actually entered into historical reality.
This walkway is well known among those interested in Lewis and the other Inklings-the group of Oxford-based Christian writers who met regularly to discuss their works and read them aloud to each other-for Addison's Walk was the setting for an important conversation Lewis had with J. Lewis was a tutor in English literature for many years, there is a tree-lined path called Addison's Walk, alongside a small stream that runs eventually into the River Cherwell by Oxford's botanical gardens. In Oxford on the parklike grounds of Magdalen College, where C.
Whatever comes after, something that was between us dies here. and then to make of it a tool, a weapon, a thing of policy and mastery, an instrument of torture-I begin to think I never knew you. I am not sure whether I like your kind of love better than hatred. You are indeed teaching me about kinds of love I did not know.
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