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C.S. Lewis’s Concept of “Joy”
July 19, 2007 at 8:33 am by mahud
Is anyone familiar with what C.S Lewis terms Joy, or Sehnsucht (German: Longing)? Have you ever experienced it, and what evoked the experience?
I plan on writing a fuller explanation of C.S Lewis’s definition of ‘Joy’ in a future post, for anyone who may be unfamiliar with the concept, and provide a few personal encounters of ‘Joy’, though movies, music and even video games.
But for now I’d like to share a piece of music that invokes (for myself) simultaneously feelings of both pleasure and grief, and a desire for something ‘other’, that is just within my reach, but cannot grasp.
I relate to this song in a big way.
YouTube: Joy Division (Atmosphere)
Joy Division: Atmosphere (lyrics)
Walk in silence,
Don’t walk away, in silence.
See the danger,
Always danger,
Endless talking,
Life rebuilding,
Don’t walk away.Walk in silence,
Don’t turn away, in silence.
Your confusion,
My illusion,
Worn like a mask of self-hate,
Confronts and then dies.
Don’t walk away.People like you find it easy,
Naked to see,
Walking on air.
Hunting by the rivers,
Through the streets,
Every corner abandoned too soon,
Set down with due care.
Don’t walk away in silence,
Don’t walk away.
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