"Growing Up (and its pitfalls)" - A short essay on the way we sometimes so badly want to be taken seriously that we deny things we still like.

From: [identity profile] syringavulgaris.livejournal.com


Insightful analysis, and so very true. Approving Cat approves.

(Your next assignment: Write a companion piece about the opposite problem--writers & editors who have moved through their juvephobia and rubber-banded out to the other end of the spectrum, resetting the clock to exactly where it was in their happy salad days, throwing out everything that's happened since for good or ill.)

From: [identity profile] querldox.livejournal.com


A relevant C.S. Lewis quote that Lis Riba just put up on her blog;

"When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
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