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| Edition: | Square Fish (Paperback) |
| Author: | Madeleine L'Engle |
| Published: | May 2007 |
| Pages: | 224 |
| ISBN 10: | 0312368542 |
| New: | $2.90 (74) |
| Used: | $0.04 (98) |
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Cosmic evil is connected with evil on a cellular level, and the children along with some new friends go within Charles Wallace in order to save his mitochondria (and the fictive entities living within them, the farandolae) from the un-namers—the Echthroi (which, incidentally, is the Koine Greek word for "enemy"). The Echthroi are powerful, evil creatures whose desire is to X (i.e. extinguish) creation. Author Calvin Miller writes that the Echthroi are "demonic spirits" that "are always stalking good, making the whole sick, the entire partial, the holy eroded by the contaminated.
