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 One passage from the latter play, where the truth begins to penetrate the Queen's simplicity, will indicate the death motive:

She cannot understand the mystery of the darkness that is not dark to the vision of this inscrutable lord of love and life-in-death. It is equally wonderful that he can see in her, Sudarshana, what he does. She asks him if she is really as he says—"so wonderful, so beautiful"—for she cannot find these qualities in herself. The King replies that not even her own mirror can reflect them. "Could you only