Christmas in C.S. Lewis' "The Last Battle"
Tirian looked and saw the queerest and most ridiculous thing
you can imagine. Only a few yards away, clear to be seen in the sunlight, there
stood up a rough wooden door and, round it, the framework of the doorway:
nothing else, no walls, no roof. He walked toward it, bewildered, and the
others followed, watching to see what he would do. He walked round to the other
side of the door. But it looked just the same from the other side: he was still
in the open air, on a summer morning. The door was simply standing up by itself
as if it had grown there like a tree. “Fair Sir,” said Tirian to the High King,
“this is a great marvel.” “It is the door you came through with that Calormene
five minutes ago,” said Peter smiling. “But did I not come in out of the wood
into the stable? Whereas this seems to be a door leading from nowhere to
nowhere.” “It looks like that if you walk round it,” said Peter. “But put your
eye to that place where there is a crack between two of the planks and look
through.”. . . .
He looked round again and could hardly believe his eyes.
There was the blue sky overhead, and grassy country spreading as far as he
could see in every direction, and his new friends all round him laughing. “It
seems, then,” said Tirian, smiling himself, “that the stable seen from within
and the stable seen from without are two different places.” “Yes,” said the
Lord Digory. “Its inside is bigger than its outside.” “Yes,” said Queen Lucy.
“In our world too, a stable once had something inside it that was bigger than
our whole world.” (2008-10-29). The Last Battle: The Chronicles of Narnia (p. 159-161).
Harper Collins, Inc.. Kindle Edition.
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