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A Long Game of Make-Believe

02 Thursday Jul 2020

Posted by la Clarina in Stories, Things

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Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Louisa May Alcott, make-believe, Michael Ende

Am I very wrong in thinking that make-believe must be the most universal of all childhood games? We all traveled to far-away worlds, didn’t we? And made-believe to be this or that in castles, jungles, and star-ships? With or without dolls, toy soldiers or plush animals, alone or with other children, recreating stories heard, or making it up, rehearsing work, motherhood, war, fear, society – always halfway between a technical test of life and unbridled What If… Continue reading →

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