Status Updates From La principessa e Curdie

Chapter 8 has so many theological metaphors I had to read the chapter multiple times. I don’t see how a child could fully grasp this but I see how it could make one keep coming back, always discovering something new. I appreciate and observe that Macdonald definitely held to the belief that good stories should be a delight to the child + the adult because his are such!

“Could you not give me some sign, or tell me something about you that never changes, or some other way to know you, or thing to know you by?" — "No, Curdie: that would be to keep you from knowing me. You must know me in quite another way from that. It would not be the least use to you or me either if I were to make you know me in that way. It would be but to know the sign of me — not to know me myself.”

“There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.”

Right out of the gate, George 👏🏻