Wednesday Post 3: "A light when all other lights go out"
A personal meditation on Tolkien and the demon Acedia
Now you’re stuck, but that’s not the worst of it…
It’s late Thursday night. There’s a reason I didn’t write this on Wednesday; I was snared. I was caught in a web of dullness, tiredness, numbness, mental darkness and immobility. I had a bad case of Acedia on Wednesday. So bad I felt as though I could hardly move or keep my eyes open. I tried to read, tr…