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[percivale]

"Story always tells us more than mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it."

Story , , , I like how she says it that way. "Story",  like a quality, half like a name, the faintest echo of a deity.

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[sister_lavendar]

I really love that too! Who is it from?

[percivale]

Madeleine L'engle. I've recently been listening to her "A Wrinkle in Time" on the tape-player in my car.

[metaproblematic]

Ah...I knew it must be her -- is it from "A Wrinkle in Time," though? I *just* read that and I can't remember which part it would have been from...I thought perhaps it was from "Walking on Water"...

[percivale]

Actually, its from an intro in the beginning of this copy of "A Swiftly Tilting Planet" I've been looking at. But I think the introduction, written a good deal after the book, was meant to be put into a number of the books. "A Wrinkle in Time" is amazing though! She remains miraculously honest in the midst of trying some very treacherous and tremendous territory. And she really manages to touch some luminous things that dazzle and cut.
Well, if my praise is too high chock it up to enthusiasm. By the way, I'm sorry I never responded to your e-mails. I fully meant to. But they caught me at a very precarious and somewhat desperate stretch of time (much that has been resolved since then), and I felt unable to communicate with much of anyone,