A few months ago I suddenly got the urge to look up one of my favorite authors, Madeleine L’Engle, online.
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Posted by
sarah on 06/04 at 06:24 PM
great article i love her writing too!
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lance lee on 03/30 at 08:48 PM
i thoroughly enjoyed your piece. myself being an avid engle fan could relate quite easily with some of the points you defined in the article. i would appreciate if we could strike up a dialogue via e-mail because i would like to compare views
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Erin Shepherd on 08/02 at 04:27 PM
I have read and re-read the Madeline L’Engle trilogy throughout my life. It has shaped my belief system and worldview more than any other work of fiction I can think of.
It strikes me the most when life seems too hard to get through. On 9/11/2001, I was in opera rehearsal with my castmates, and we were working through a sextet from Die Fledermaus called “Sing to Love”. The piece is comprised of many moving parts- each singer on his or her own melody, but all weave to form perfect harmony. When it ended, we all looked at each other with tears streaming down our faces.
When we finished rehearsal, a good friend of mine, who was pregnant at the time, looked at me with utter despair, and said she couldn’t bear to sing another note when times were so terrible, and she couldn’t bear the thought of bringing her child into this world with such horribleness.
It’s funny, because that’s when I realized that Madeline L’Engle’s books had so shaped my thoughts. At a time when there’s war and despair, we MUST sing.
Later in my life I had ananda tattooed in Sanskrit on my wrist.
Just wanted to share. Thank you for your article
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