“…just as bad as indulging joy, or seeking to fulfill it in wild ways, is the opposite extreme of rejecting all desire as moonshine: being some old man from, I don’t know, from Maine or something, saying, ‘Uuugh, what do I need this joy for? All those fancy romantics…’: being stubborn. Lewis wants you to know that that’s just as bad.”

– Dr. Louis Markos in The Teaching Company lectures Life and Writings of C.S. Lewis, lecture 2, “Argument by Desire.”