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I am listening to this, not reading it, on my daily walks with my GSD.I got this from the library sale and I knew nothing about MacDonald. It's an odd tale -- that's fer sure.

A grayheaded man sat on the sand, weeping. “What ails you, sir?” I asked. “Are you forsaken?” “I weep,” he answered, “because they will not let me die. I have been to the house of death, and its mistress, notwithstanding my years, refuses me. Intercede for me, sir, if you know her.” “Nay, sir,” I replied, “that I cannot; for she refuses none whom it is lawful for her to receive."
wow! This really spoke to me!!

"What was she seeing? I looked, and saw: before her, cast from unseen heavenly mirror, stood the reflection of herself, and beside it a form of splendent beauty. She trembled, and sank again on the floor helpless. She knew the one what God had intended her to be, the other what she had made herself."

Oh, there is so depth there! Wow

“I am no slave, for I love that light, and will with the deeper will which created mine. There is no slave but the creature that wills against its creator. Who is a slave but her who cries, ‘I am free,’ yet cannot cease to exist!”