Suomalainen toimittaja on hämmentynyt siitä, että hän on ihastunut angloamerikkalaiseen jouluun. (Annamari Sipilä Oikein hyvää ja pinnallista joulua HS/Sunnuntai 20.12.2015.) Eikö hän tiedä, että angloamerikkalaisen kulttuurin loistossa on myös keskiaikainen piirre? Se on Suomessa tuntematonta ja ymmärrretään väärin. C.S. Lewis kirjoittaa.
""Luxury and material splendour in the modern world need be connected with nothing but money and are also, more often than not, very ugly. But what a medieval man saw in royal and feudal courts and imagined as being outstripped in 'faerie' and far outstripped in Heaven, was not so. The architecture, arms, crowns, clothes, horses, and music were nearly all beautiful. They were all symbolical and significant – of sanctity, authority, valour, noble lineage or, at the very worst, of power. They were associated, as modern luxury is not, with graciousness and courtesy. They could therefore be ingeniously admired without degradation for the admirer." C. S. Lewis, The Discarded Image
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