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A FEARLESS FAITH IN FICTION — THE PASSION OF THE READING MOMENT CRYSTALLISED — Empirical literary critiques from 2008 as based on purchased books.
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Des Lewis - GESTALT REAL-TIME BOOK REVIEWS
A FEARLESS FAITH IN FICTION — THE PASSION OF THE READING MOMENT CRYSTALLISED — Empirical literary critiques from 2008 as based on purchased books.
THE DOOR IN THE WALL by H.G. Wells
“Poor little wretch I was! — brought back to this grey world again,”
This classic story, a very apt follow-up to the previous story of grey ones, is about a lifetime’s longings and dreams and power of imagination, that famously recurrent green door in a white wall, whichever ‘North West Passage’ one chooses to get to school as a small precocious boy, or to the cabinet office as a successful politician, even as today’s boorish prime minister? It is also tellingly a parallel with the Clarimonde syndrome, the memory of sleeping-with-panthers, and of the 4th book’s Capuchin monk now as a Capuchin monkey. Beyond even a book’s ‘realities’.
This story I have been yearning to rediscover over many years.
Full context here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2021/05/12/27614/