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Madeleine L’Engle on fantasy and the open mind

‘Children respond to anything a writer asks of them-as long as there isn’t any wax [i.e. inauthenticity] around. It’s often possible to make demands of a child that couldn’t be made of an adult. Sometimes the very acquisition of knowledge (something quite different from wisdom) can hold us back. For instance, in some of the… Continue reading