And the glorious truth is that Lewis’s vision of feasting through winter and glorying in spring and resisting the seductive dullness of the Witch’s world is not just a fairy tale, but the way the world really is. In the bleak mid-winter long ago, Spring landed in Bethlehem and began to unthaw the world. Frozen rivers melted and stone statues began to come to life. The Son of Man came eating and drinking and magically turning water into wine and multiplying loaves and fishes on a grassy hillside. Accused of gluttony and indulgence, he endured the scorn and violence of men with ice in their
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