We are not meant to be young and wrinkle-free forever our bodies are meant to change, to be given away, to be “lovely as a ripened field rich as an ancient tree still bearing fruit in her final season.” Wilson develops this theme not primarily in Sam Miracle, the hero of the first book, but-surprise-Glory. Do not dread or deny the advancing years, but wear them stately and heavy like a crown. In Book 2 of Outlaws of Time (coming April 18), the prevailing theme is two-pronged: reverence and gratitude for old age, and therefore fearlessness in the face of death. His most beloved themes (distilled in his two nonfiction works, Notes From the Tilt-A-Whirl and Death by Living) are incarnated in every children’s novel to date: courage, self-sacrifice, thanksgiving, feasting, wonder at the world, laughter in the face of evil, joy in our own finitude, faith in the God of perfect stories. Wilson has produced enough for the same to be manifestly true of him. The truths he believed resided so deep in his bones, they flowed inevitably into every story and sermon and poem he wrote.īy now, N.D. Lewis, meaning this: “What he thought about everything was secretly present in what he said about anything.” Wherever Lewis went, there he was. One of the marks of a great writer is what Owen Barfield called “presence of mind,” which he used to describe his good friend C.S. “Are you going to run, Vulture?” Sam asked.
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