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From: shannon wilde <swilde_99@yahoo.com> Subject: (urth) Re: children? Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:13:41 --- shannon wilde <swilde_99@yahoo.com> wrote: > Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:07:26 -0700 (PDT) > From: shannon wilde <swilde_99@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: children? > To: urth@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. > > > ===== > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com > ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com *More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.urth.net/urth/