Do you mean to say, asked Caspian, that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never told me! It's really too bad for you. Because we have fairy-tales in which there are round worlds and I have always loved them β¦ Have you ever been to the parts where people walk about upside-down? Edmund shook his head. And it isn't like that, he added. There's nothing particularly exciting about a round world when you're there.
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