Original artwork, not a still
A Grief Observed • 1961
If, as I can’t help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Lewis speculates, tentatively, that the dead may also feel the ache of being parted. If so, loss isn't a rare interruption of love but part of it for every couple. He presents this as his own suspicion, not settled fact.
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