# “This is my real country!” by C.S. Lewis

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“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 you ever get there you
will know what I mean.

It was the Unicorn who summed up what everyone was feeling. He stamped his right
fore-hoof on the ground and neighed, and then cried:

> “I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the
> land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now. The
> reason why we loved the old Narnia is that it sometimes looked a little like this.
> Bree-hee-hee! Come further up, come further in!”

He shook his mane and sprang forward into a great gallop—a Unicorn’s gallop, which,
in our world, would have carried him out of sight in a few moments. But now a most
strange thing happened.

Everyone else began to run, and they found, to their astonishment, that they could
keep up with him: not only the Dogs and the humans but even fat little Puzzle and
short-legged Poggin the Dwarf.

The air flew in their faces as if they were driving fast in a car without a windscreen.
The country flew past as if they were seeing it from the windows of an express train.

Faster and faster they raced, but no one got hot or tired or out of breath.”

–C.S. Lewis, _**[The Last Battle (The Chronicles of Narnia Book 7)](https://link.amazon/B09Cd9kKP)**_(
New York: Harper, 1956/2010), 114.

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