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Haunted Halfling
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: an uncounted length of steps--floating between air molecules
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Gee, Helen! You ought to start a mailing list and send inspirational tidbits to everyone to start out their day right!
![]() From the Epilogue of "On Fairy Stories," so helpfully pointed to by Helen: Quote:
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This process of assimiliation or amalgamation of the reader and the book is complex, and rather than separating the two worlds, I think it draws them closer, to the 'edge of Faerie' if you will, so that one can walk in the two worlds simultaneously. Of course, there is the "head in the clouds" syndrome that one must avoid while driving at high speeds on the Interstate highways, etc., but while I walk in the forests, I absolutely believe in Ents. ( I still believe in them on the highway, but hardly expect to see them there!) So, as to the question of the Book or the Reader? I think the answer is whereever the Book meets the Reader or the Reader meets the Book. It is a process, and I think Helen's idea of the cyclical process upon re-reading jibes with my experience of seeing new things and finding new applicability as years pass and re-readings mount. (See! I don't think I used the T word even once!) ![]() Cheers, Lyta
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