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Quote from "The Little Mermaid" (1837)

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The sun rose up from the waters. Its beams fell, warm and kindly, upon the chill sea foam, and the little mermaid did not feel the hand of death. In the bright sunlight overhead,she saw hundreds of fair ethereal beings. They were so transparent that through them she could see the ship's white sails and the red clouds in the sky. Their voices were sheer music, but so spirit-like that no human ear could detect the sound, just as no eye on earth could see their forms. Without wings, they floated as light as the air itself. The little mermaid discovered that she was shaped like them, and that she was gradually rising up out of the foam.

Source: Jean Hersholt's translation of "The Little Mermaid"

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1. Intermediate state
2. Resurrection
3. Transformation

Keywords: Transformation, intermediate state

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