children?

shannon wilde · 26 Oct 1999, 16:13 · from urth-v0028.mbox · original

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From: shannon wilde <swilde_99 at yahoo.com>
Subject: (urth) Re: children?
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:13:41
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--- shannon wilde <swilde_99 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:07:26 -0700 (PDT)
> From: shannon wilde <swilde_99 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: children?
> To: urth at best.lists.com
>=20
> Forgive me, all, I couldn't resist replying to the
> "survival as kiddy lit" bit. I myself was turned
> onto
> _Fahrenheit 451_, first the book, then the movie,
> when
> I was approx 5-6 yrs old. By third grade, I had read
> all of _The Lord of the Rings_ and had read both
> _Dune_ and _The Dispossessed_ by age 11. Of course
> that goes for _The Metamorphosis_ and some of
> Borges,
> too. Not bragging, really. My point is that good,and
> great, literature is both timeless and ageless for
> those with the mind's eye to see. Heck, I read
> Grimm's
> and Calvino's collected fairytales, and Rudyard
> Kipling, with even more pleasure than I did as a
> child. Admittedly, Proust et al might be a bit much
> for most youngsters (and adults) but if TBOTNS had
> been published when I waas shorter, it would surely
> have been "gold" to me, even as _The Dying Earth_
> and
> so much of Vance was. You all were probably pretty
> exceptional folk throughout your lives, so you know
> what I mean. Like Bryan Cholfin (formerly editor of
> Crank! mag) Wolfe was formative to my critical and
> aesthetic appreciation of modern literature. I
> wonder
> how those solitary tots of today will be entranced
> by
> the many wonders of Urth and sky...presumably w/o
> the
> tall, grey-robed figures abducting them.     =20
>=20
>=20
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>=20
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>=20


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