"Think of yourself just as a seed patiently waiting in the earth: waiting to come up a flower in the Gardener's good time, up into the real world, the real waking. I suppose that our whole present life, looked back on from there, will only seem a drowsy half-waking. We are here in the land of dreams. But the cock-crow is coming. It is nearer now than when I began this letter."

-Lewis to Mary Willis Shelburne, 28 June 1963