They say Thomas closed the door to Elfland when he went back there. Certainly in the last seven hundred years or so, nobody had found the way there; or, to be more accurate, nobody has found the way back. Thomas went to Elfland and came back, and before him, Orpheus, if that is where Orpheus went. There is more than one country where the door only works one way.
If this is the case, then it is possible that there are many doors to Elfland, perhaps a vast or even infinite number, all open, admitting many, releasing none. The mysterious country on the other side, of which we know nothing, the country whose border is everywhere, and everywhere invisible, welcomes the stranger but welcomes him irreversibly.
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