And it reminds me that I have an embarrassing confession to make. When I’m in doubt - as I am now - I ask myself, ‘What would Carl Jung do?’ - and act accordingly.”Īlthough I can’t imagine Jung ever turning down any magical food or drink, I’m sure this is otherwise an admirable code by which to live. When she refuses to eat a wild strawberry, the would-be victim gives the following explanation: “In all the tales, the myths, the rule is, if you eat or drink anything - pomegranate seeds, faerie wine, whatever - the place has a hold on you. . . To do this, the host must first get her victim to eat or drink something containing banjax, a substance that makes the soul easier to harvest. Her host is planning to dine on her soul, after using a kind of science-fiction thingy to reach in through her nostrils and pluck it out. At one point in this novel a character is led through an “aperture” into a magical, intradimensional garden.
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