Ms. Byatt affair; (was: Check out this news article and respond!!)

ER ression at hotmail.com
Thu Jul 10 21:14:54 UTC 2003


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Przemyslaw Plaskowicki" 
<przepla at i...> wrote:
> 
> All that stuff regarding escapism I'll refute quoting C.S. Lewis:
> "When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been 
> ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read 
them 
> openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including 
the 
> fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
> 

I think he also said something like, "No child's book worth reading 
at ten that is not worth reading at fifty is not worth reading".

ER





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