In good sooth, my masters, this is no door.
Yet is it a little window, that looketh upon a great world.
—From the Prologue to Phantastes.

This in relation to seraphimsigrist’s post about doors.

George MacDonald’s book, Phantastes, has many doors. Doing a search and replacement I find that there are 87 occurances of the word door in its various forms. This doesn’t count the number of times other such words, like portals, are used.

Here are some selections about doors, in particular those leading out of a certain cottage: ( Read more... )

For the full text of Phantastes go here: http://encyclopediaindex.com/b/phafr10.htm