"There was another stillness.
"Then the cross on the altar shone forth, momentarily sun-bright, and we heard one piercing, exquisite note, and I felt within me a rush of joy I can only vaguely compare to the winning of first love."
-Poul Anderson, Operation Chaos (New York, 1995), XXIX, p. 231.
A soul has come from Heaven. But then, immediately, without even a change of paragraph:
"But another noise followed, as of a huge wind. The candles went out, the panes went black, we staggered when the floor shook beneath us." (ibid.)
Another soul has come from Purgatory.
I want to compare this with something in CS Lewis but am being interrupted. More later.
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