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It took Flora a great effort to turn her head to look at Death. Not surprising, if you see yourself as Death.For me death is a wolf, Peter thought and Flora realized that something she had thought was only imaginative play was her own fundamental belief: she herself was Death.
Of all the ways it was possible to imagine Death as a human figure-the man with the scythe, the Phantom Charioteer, a leering skeleton or an old African woman-Flora had been drawn to the idea of Death as a twin sister. It stemmed from a couple of years ago when she had been standing in front of the mirror with a candle trying to summon the Dark Lady, and seen only herself. The idea had come to her then.
And for the religious character, Elvy, Death appears as the Virgin Mary.Wolfchild wrote:But others had seen Death, but Death appeared to each of them differently. Eva had already seen Death and incorporated it into her books as a character.
JAL explains Flora's vision of Death to us himself:
It took Flora a great effort to turn her head to look at Death. Not surprising, if you see yourself as Death.For me death is a wolf, Peter thought and Flora realized that something she had thought was only imaginative play was her own fundamental belief: she herself was Death.
Of all the ways it was possible to imagine Death as a human figure-the man with the scythe, the Phantom Charioteer, a leering skeleton or an old African woman-Flora had been drawn to the idea of Death as a twin sister. It stemmed from a couple of years ago when she had been standing in front of the mirror with a candle trying to summon the Dark Lady, and seen only herself. The idea had come to her then.
I just finished this book!Hume wrote:And for the religious character, Elvy, Death appears as the Virgin Mary.Wolfchild wrote:But others had seen Death, but Death appeared to each of them differently. Eva had already seen Death and incorporated it into her books as a character.
JAL explains Flora's vision of Death to us himself:
It took Flora a great effort to turn her head to look at Death. Not surprising, if you see yourself as Death.For me death is a wolf, Peter thought and Flora realized that something she had thought was only imaginative play was her own fundamental belief: she herself was Death.
Of all the ways it was possible to imagine Death as a human figure-the man with the scythe, the Phantom Charioteer, a leering skeleton or an old African woman-Flora had been drawn to the idea of Death as a twin sister. It stemmed from a couple of years ago when she had been standing in front of the mirror with a candle trying to summon the Dark Lady, and seen only herself. The idea had come to her then.