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Between worlds
Watched "City on the Edge of Forever," the Harlan Ellison Star Trek award-winning classic a few nights ago. Apparently H.E. hated it. But in reading reviews of the episode, it struck me that the character of The Guardian (who lives where McCoy, Kirk, Spock, Uhura, Scotty, et. al, land in a place in-between), is very similar to The Wood Between the Worlds in "The Magician's Nephew" episode of C.S. Lewis' "Chronicles of Narnia."
A place in between, where choices, and pasts and futures, are made and, maybe, changed.
Here is Pauline Baynes' illustration of the Wood Between the Worlds from "The Magician's Nephew." Polly & Digory meet one very interesting character in one of their leaps from pond to pond in the Wood Between the Worlds. And there are rings involved. And by the way Pauline Baynes was an extraordinary illustrator.
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1 comment:
This particular illustration has stayed with me since the very first time I read "The Magician's Nephew". Although all of Ms. Baynes illustrations are truly excellent throughout the Narnia series, this one I think will never be lost to my memory.
Mysterious, curious and fascinating.
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