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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
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.
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