9:42pm October 6, 2014

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…I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.

Already I have set down statements I would gladly change did I know how to substitute a truer utterance; but as often as I try to fit the reality with nearer words, I find myself in danger of losing the things themselves, and feel like one in process of awaking from a dream, with the thing that seemed familiar gradually yet swiftly changing through a succession of forms until its very nature is no longer recognisable.

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George MacDonald, Lilith

(Warning that the book is very intense, very Christian in ways that could seriously rub some people the wrong way, and spends most of the book in a murky delirium-like otherworld that’s creepy and distorted.  It’s very unlike a lot of his other books.   I found it worth reading but YMMV considerably.)

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