"It is as hard to explain how this sunlit land was different from the old Narnia as it would be to tell
you how the fruits of that country taste. Perhaps you will get some idea of it if you think like this. You
may have been in a room in which there was a window that looked out on a lovely bay of the sea or a
green valley that wound away among mountains. And in the wall of that room opposite to the window
there may have been a looking glass. And as you turned away from the window you suddenly caught
sight of that sea or that valley, all over again, in the looking glass. And the sea in the mirror, or the
valley in the mirror, were in one sense just the same as the real ones: yet at the same time they were
somehow different - deeper, more wonderful, more like places in a story: in a story you have never
heard but very much want to know. The difference between the old Narnia and the new Narnia was
like that. The new one was a deeper country: every rock and flower and blade of grass looked as if it
meant more. I can't describe it any better than that: if ever you get there you will know what I mean." - The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis
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