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Episode 150: Sacramental Reality: On Arthur Machen's "A Fragment of Life"

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The Importance of Intuition

This episode that Mary tells her husband ends up playing a part in the slow transformation of Mary and Edward's lives. At one point, Mary says, doesn't it seem queer, Edward? She's referring to the conversation about the walks into the kind of sidereal or numinous London. And then Darnell says something very interesting. On the walls of that great church on the hill, I saw all kinds of strange and grinning monsters carved in stone. That's on page 193. He's sensing, he's intuiting that what Mary's revealing to him here is the other side of that splendid world he glimpsed.

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