I used that phrase in last Sunday’s journal, and it’s been on my mind ever since. I expect many or most people who read this blog recognize it: it’s from the last volume of C. S. Lewis’s Narnia series. Here is some context, a reminder for those who know the books, and an explanation for anyone who doesn’t. It is something of a spoiler, in that it does give away The End of the series, so someone who has not read them may want to read no further here. But it doesn’t tell how the story got here, so I don’t think it really spoils anything.
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…. Come further up! Come further in!”
….
Lucy said, “We’re so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often.”
“No fear of that,” said Aslan. “Have you not guessed?”
Their hearts leaped and a wild hope rose within them.
“….Your father and mother and all of you are—as you used to call it in the Shadow-Lands—dead. The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.”
….
…for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story, which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
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