Journey to the Sea, Issue 10 came out this past week! There’s an interview with pub patron, sometimes guest author, and our favorite Lovecraft scholar, Amy H. Sturgis, as well as an article on the fourth volume of L’Engle’s Time Quintet. I hope to find time to interact with some of this in the upcoming week (after Wednesday, when I take a professional certification exam in electrophysiology, which exam is kind of a big deal).
For those pub patrons itching to jump into the Augustana College assignment: You may begin tomorrow, April 6!
Discuss:
“The artist…must retain the vision which includes angels and dragons and unicorns and all the lovely creatures which our world put in a box and marked Children Only. ~ Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on Water
- Why are supernatural beings considered kids’ stuff?
- What benefit does the adult derive from these “lovely creatures”?
- What do you say to people who think you’re nuts for liking “kids’ stories”?
“If our vocabulary dwindles to a few shopworn words, we are setting ourselves up for takeover by a dictator. When language becomes exhausted, our freedom dwindles – we cannot think; we do not recognize danger. Injustice strikes us as no more than ‘the way things are’.” ~ Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on Water. Colorado Springs: Shaw Books, 1972. p. 37.
- What is L’Engle saying here? Is she right?
- How does creative language help in the fight against injustice?
- Where do we see this play out inside Harry Potter, and in our culture relating to Harry Potter and other imaginative fiction?
Discuss:
“The reader, viewer, listener usually grossly underestimates his importance. If a reader cannot create a book along with the writer, the book will never come to life.” ~ Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on Water. Colorado Springs: Shaw Books, 1972. p. 30-31.
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