The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.
Gregory MaguireChildren played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.
Gregory MaguireTags: children storytelling fairytales
The circularity of influence was like a trail of dominoes falling in four dimensions. Each time one slapped another and fell to the ground, from a different vantage point it appeared knocked upright, ready to be slapped and fall again.
Everything was not merely relative, it was--how to put it? --relevant. Representational. Revealing. Referential and reverential both.
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Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.
Gregory MaguireTags: death calm character resolve dissociation
That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?
Gregory MaguireTags: wicked
Mergaitėms reikia šalto pykčio. Joms būtina apgalvota neapykanta, pagieža, leidžianti išvengti kompromisų, vengimas atleisti. Joms reikia žinoti, jog pasakytų žodžių neatsiims, niekada, niekada. Tai kompensacija už ribotas moterų galimybes pasaulyje.
Gregory MaguireTags: girls-wrath
Blogis nėra negeri poelgiai, o tai, kaip bjauriai po to jautiesi.
Gregory MaguireTags: bad
And in the cave there lived a wicked old witch.
Did she ever come out?
Not yet.
At its most elemental, a spell is no more than a recipe for change.
Gregory MaguireTags: magic
The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life and the older you get- the more specifically you harvest- the more precious becomes every ounce and spasm. Your life and times don’t drain of meaning because they become more contradictory, ornamented by paradox, inexplicable. The less explicable, the more meaning. The less like a mathematics equation (a sum game); the more like music (significant secret).
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