“This is one of the troubles and wonders of childhood: you imagine things wrongly. And later,
“This is one of the troubles and wonders of childhood: you imagine things wrongly. And later, when the truth is known - assuming there is an absolute truth - the unwinding of the imagined thing is tangled, because the first image keeps on obstinately breaking through. You’re adrift in mystery and ambiguity. And yet for a writer’s imagination, the unfixed place is sometimes a promising place to dwell.” - Rose Tremain, Rosie: Scenes From a Vanished Life -- source link
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