![]() ![]() ![]() (We need our Cricky and all that stuff of his.) I do not expect you to understand that after thirty-two years I have rolled you all into one and now I know the agonies of a mother robbed of her child.… But listen, listen. Children to whom, throughout history, stories have been told, chiefly but not always at bedtime, in order to quell restless thoughts whose need of stories is matched only by the need adults have of children to tell stories to, of receptacles for their stock of fairy-tales, of listening ears on which to unload those most unbelievable yet haunting of fairy-tales, their own lives children – they are going to separate you and me. I began, having recognized in my young but by no means carefree class the contagious symptoms of fear: ‘Once upon a time …’Ĭhildren, who will inherit the world. ![]() I met a question in the sentence "whose need of stories is matched only by the need adults have of children to tell stories to" of the novel "Waterland" that was written by Graham Swift. ![]()
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