Later in The Great Divorce the narrator meets the well traveled man. The man finds it impossible to be content with anything in life and so is headed back toward hell. Even hell for him is a disappointment. Lewis also subtly suggests here that anywhere in the world is worthy of being visited. The traveler talks of a Wold Combine where they take an Atlas and choose where to have a sight. The man thinks this is a scam, but it begs the question of why that this is wrong. Is any place one earth really not worth seeing? True appreciation, as is praised in this selection, could find admirable things anywhere in anything. It is also essential to salvation because this shows that your conception of reality can be skewed not by insuperior intellect but by an incapacity to appreciate.

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