In "Surprised by Joy" (1955), his autobiography, Lewis talks of being seized at an early age with a passion for what he calls "Northernness".
In Surprised by Joy, he says that, when his mother died, "grief was overwhelmed by terror" at the sight of her dead body.
He was lying on his back, his narrow bed pushed against the wall, and turned when I came in, surprised, making as if to get up.
But as night fell on Independence Day, people walking in search of a vantage point to watch the evening's displays of pyrotechnics converged on this lawn, where they shared, in surprised silence, a discovery: this was the place to watch fireworks in Los Angeles.
In The Intellectual World of CS Lewis, McGrath doesn't write noticeably better, but you do get a fuller sense, essay by essay, of Lewis's intellectual and spiritual genealogy – of the influences, say, of GK Chesterton and Augustine in Surprised by Joy, or of Max Müller on Lewis's theories of myth.
When I first discovered C.S. Lewis decades ago, he described in "Surprised by Joy" that when he looked inside himself, he discovered "a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds".
We argue that the behavioral underpinnings of features like lock-in, surprises in innovation systems and network interactions have been insufficiently elaborated and connected to policy design.
I flew in and surprised her.
My mother-in-law was surprised.
We should not, in truth, be surprised.
I was surprised, in a pleasant way".
