Posted by giveawayboy on December 18, 2002 at 00:59:25:
This is C.S. Lewis' description of his first encounter with Arthur Greeves. I post it here since it is a very touching account of friendship. If you have any responses to this let me know:
"About the same time that my father decided to send me to Mr. Kirkpatrick, another great good came upon me. Many chapters ago I mentioned a boy who lived near us and who had tried, quite unsuccessfully, to make friends with my brother and myself. His name was Arthur and he was my brother's exact contemporary; he and I had been at Campbell together though we never met. I think it was shortly before the beginning of my last term at Wyvern (i.e. Malvern) that I received a message saying that Arthur was in bed, convalescent, and would welcome a visit. I can't remember what led me to accept this invitation, but for some reason I did. I found Arthur sitting up in bed. On the table beside him lay a copy of Myths of the Norsemen. "Do you like that?" said I. "Do you like that?" said he. Next moment the books was in our hands, our heads were bent close together, we were pointing, quoting. talking -- soon almost shouting -- discovering in a torrent of questions that we not only liked the same thing, but the same parts of it and in the same way; that both knew the stab of Joy and that, for both, the arrow was shot from the North."