It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocence adults grow into, that terrible vulnerability that must be sheltered from th rodent moire of childhood.
-Olympia Binewski, Geek Love (By Katherine Dunn)
Common Grief of Children : John Connell: The Blog
May 28, 2009 @ 1:05 pm
[…] Darcie Condie offers a neat inversion in a quotation from Katherine Dunn’s novel Geek Love: It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocence adults grow into, that terrible vulnerability that must be sheltered from the rodent mire of childhood. […]
June 27, 2009 @ 11:35 am
One of the greatest books ever written.
July 16, 2009 @ 12:13 pm
Agreed. Extremely underated and deep philosophy on how we view others who we deem ‘different’ or ‘below’ the norm of society.