I wonder if she knew the thing about Mitochondria having their own DNA--that they're evolutionary guests that just happen to do us the favor of providing us with energy. I guess she probably did, huh.
Yeah, I think you're probably onto something about journeys and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader and Silver Chair. For me, the latter sorted my nine-year-old existential crisis out. "We babies can create a play world that beats your real world hollow," said Puddleglum. The power of the imagination to create BETTER. Which isn't about delusion, but about true creativity, generative creation ... which ties back to the Wind in the Door. I loved that ending so much because instead of trying to X the Echthroi, Meg opened up the door for nothingness to become ... something.
Where she does all the big-thing small-thing pairs: sea sand and solar system, butterfly and behemoth--it was like a mandala, it was like a way of putting everything in the whole universe into those few lines. I honestly can't think about it without, to this day, getting choked up.
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Yeah, I think you're probably onto something about journeys and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader and Silver Chair. For me, the latter sorted my nine-year-old existential crisis out. "We babies can create a play world that beats your real world hollow," said Puddleglum. The power of the imagination to create BETTER. Which isn't about delusion, but about true creativity, generative creation ... which ties back to the Wind in the Door. I loved that ending so much because instead of trying to X the Echthroi, Meg opened up the door for nothingness to become ... something.
Where she does all the big-thing small-thing pairs: sea sand and solar system, butterfly and behemoth--it was like a mandala, it was like a way of putting everything in the whole universe into those few lines. I honestly can't think about it without, to this day, getting choked up.