the pious Mormon boy heading already toward not just a spot in Heaven but, as a male rising rank by rank in the priesthood, achieving ultimate Godhood of another "world." the thief stealing notebooks and pencils and even an occasional book vs. Somehow from then on I led what seems to me now not just a double but a multiple life: When I was six, my father died suddenly of Addison's disease, and memory says that life with my mother and my two-year-old sister was overturned in ways that no written record could reveal. I can remember so many secret spaces, starting about age four, that it's hard to resist doing a whole book on them. Pullman Professor of English Emeritus, University of Chicago Most of these authors have published books directly relevant to the general topic of this issue of MQR. From them readers can make some conclusions about the situations and spaces that need preserving and extending because of the salutary influence they exert upon the human imagination and the human spirit.Ī two-line identification tag precedes each commentary: a book, or two, an institutional affiliation, an award. The commission was not meant to be prescriptive, but suggestive, and what follows provides a striking variety of places and behaviors, in a variety of prose styles, all of the commentaries sharing the condition of being intensely memorable vignettes. Feel free, also, to extend your speculations to the subject in general and speak about one or more "secret spaces" that provoke or engage your imagination, from the experience of other children, or from the arts, and why you find these sites so compelling.
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Feel free to speculate on why this space or place was so meaningful to you, and whether it has resonated in your later life. Please undertake an autobiographical exercise, at least as an opening into the subject, "Secret Spaces of Childhood." Describe a significant private realm of your own early life that has left vivid images in your memory.
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