The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
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Children have a seemingly innate passion for justice; they don’t have to be taught it. They have to have it beaten out of them, in fact, to end up as properly prejudiced adults.
Keely Adler added 20d ago
incessant radical change, is not describable in a language that assumes continuity and a common experience of life.
Keely Adler added 20d ago
Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own, you live in danger of losing your own worth to yourself.
Keely Adler added 20d ago
Knowledge sets us free, art sets us free. A great library is freedom.
Keely Adler added 20d ago
“mental representations of things not actually present,” so that we can form a judgment of what world we live in and where we might be going in it, what we can celebrate, what we must fear.
writers who want their story to be understood not only by their contemporary compatriots but also by people of other lands and times, may seek a way of telling it that is more universally comprehensible; and fantasy is such a way.
Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own, you live in danger of losing your own worth to yourself.
Children have a seemingly innate passion for justice; they don’t have to be taught it. They have to have it beaten out of them, in fact, to end up as properly prejudiced adults.
The limits of that language—shared assumptions of class, culture, education, ethics—both focus and shrink the scope of the fiction.