Sunday, April 20, 2008

Precocial paradise

"Childhood is full of mystery and promise, and perhaps the life fear comes when all the mysteries are laid open, when what we thought we wanted is attained. It is just at the moment of seeming fulfilment that we sense irrevocable betrayal…surely this is the paradise of children, that they are at rest in the present…"

- Peter Matthiessen in The Snow Leopard

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