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The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by ‘the veil of familia...more

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Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

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Well sir, if things are real, they're there all the time"Are they?

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As he rose to his feet he noticed that he was neither dripping nor panting for breath as anyone would expect after being under water. His clothes were...more

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It was a rich place: as rich as plumcake.

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And not wretched sausages half full of bread and soya bean either, but real meaty, spicy ones, fat and piping hot and burst and just the tiniest bit b...more

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And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magici...more