The Secret Garden.

[earlofgrey]

I'm reading The Secret Garden for the first time in something like twenty years. It was given to me by my aunt. She has always lived terribly far away: it came in the post in a box wrapped in brown paper. It was the first book I ever read that contained such a limited number of pictures. There was a solemnity to the object, then, before I ever read

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[marnanel]

Oo, I know a Dickon. I wonder whether he's named after the Secret Garden character.

[owlings]

"The great scientific discoveries I am going to make," he went on, "will be about Magic."

...I need to reread this book. I feel as if it has the same sort of importance to me as it did to you, and I am only now reminded.