He wrote to his daughter Priscilla after Lewis' death:
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So far I have felt the normal feelings of a man of my age - like an old tree that is losing all its leaves one by one: this feels like an axe-blow near the roots.
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That's a very touching picture that shows that the friendship still meant much to him.
edit: Darn, Sharon - you beat me to it by one minute!
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth..
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