9/6: cosmic, intimate, revelatory

The scene in George MacDonald's Princess and the Goblin in which the Princess Irene visits the bedroom of her mystical great-great-grandmother. A fire of burning, purging roses, a bath as deep as the starry sky, a lamp as bright as the moon, walls that disappear to reveal the night, and the princess' great-great-grandmother herself with hair of shining gold.

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