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Michael Ende's The Neverending Story
luc:
--- Quote from: Psalehesost on June 01, 2012, 11:07:46 PM ---Bastian's journey reminded me of the ponerization of my past - how I sank into quite wrong ideas and my mind and emotions became warped. In retrospect I saw in each stage of his descent an analogy for a theme of what went on in me in one or another period of my life.
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Oh, the same for me... I actually read the book together with my girlfriend (we read it out aloud to each other) and we both cried several times, without even knowing why exactly... It somehow deeply touched experiences from my ponerized path and made me feel emotions from my childhood and the disturbed person I later became...
--- Quote from: Psalehesost on June 01, 2012, 11:07:46 PM ---Almost unprecedented - and wholly in the given context - given how distant I've generally been to my emotions (not by conscious choice) since the end of my childhood.
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Again, very similar for me... While I read this book, it felt like reclaiming in part the rich emotional life one has as a child. Ende reflects on this in "Zettelkasen" as I said above:
--- Quote from: luc ---Currently, I'm reading "Zettelkasten" by Michael Ende, which is a collection of some of his writings and essays he left when he died. (I don't think it is available in English.) Amazing stuff!
It turns out that Ende was arguing for a "re-marriage" of science and mysticism, that he was into the paranormal and argued that spiritual realms must exist... He said one of the last "reservations" of truth is the realm of children literature, which is allowed to a certain degree by the otherwise hostile materealistic society to grow the children's souls, but just to separate them completely from the "fantastic world" when they become adolescents.
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