How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Page)
Quote #10
"She is of divine race, and knows neither age nor death." (10.154)
Learning that the Queen of Underland is immortal does not impress Puddleglum as the enchanted Rilian hopes it might. Puddleglum understands that immortality signals a very scary kind of other—the chaos-causing witches from the North.
Quote #11
"I have heard of those little scratches in the crust that you Topdwellers call mines. But that's where you get dead gold, dead silver, dead gems. Down in Bism, we have them alive and growing. There I'll pick you bunches of rubies that you can eat and squeeze you a cupful of diamond juice." (14.206)
Golg the gnome reveals a startling truth to Rilian and company: What we call precious and valuable (i.e., gems and gold, silver) do not resemble the true magnificence of their original state. So in this scenario, we have double otherness: Golg looks on the Overlanders and their world as foreign and dangerous, and Rilian sees Bism as an unknown place well-worthy of exploration.