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RE: The Ink Well Fiction Prompt #7: The Library/ The past of my playground

in The Ink Well3 years ago

Hello @gracielaacevedo ,

In this story it is as though you removed the veil the separates an imagined world from physical reality. This is obviously a reality that is distinct from one we know. You prepare us for the narrator's fantastic adventure in the beginning:

a gentle and silent energy carries me up the wide stairs

And then we learn about the extraordinary library:

From my low height I can read all the titles. They suggest images and knowledge about geography, history, mythology, literature, architecture, flora, fauna

This is a universe/time in which the mind and the senses are exquisitely receptive to stimuli.

The end is quite satisfying. The child will return to her fantastic world beyond the bark, where more adventures await.

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I wanted to establish a relationship between the love of school, of knowledge, and the construction of a more human world each time, @agmoore. I think we are used to thinking about development in linear terms and towards the future when we could also think about it by taking up some features of the past, especially when it comes to the relationship with nature.
The fantastic world to which the girl will return can and does exist in some parts...
Thank you for your always kind and generous reading.