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The Amorous Education of Celia Seaton

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“Moundshroud led the Team down on their brooms over the farms where witches dropped frogs in cauldrons and stomped toads and snuffed mummy dust and cavorted in cackles. "But, stop and think. What does the word 'witch' truly mean?" "Why--" said Tom, and was stymied. "Wits," said Moundshroud. "Intelligence. That's all it means. Knowledge. So any man, or woman, with half a brain and with inclinations toward learning had his wits about him, eh? And so, anyone too smart, who didn't watch out, was called--" "A witch!" said everyone.”

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“Like all reading children... I read way ahead of myself, blundering into Austen and Voltaire and Dostoyevsky... understanding bits and not understanding lots; but that's how we learn to speak and read, isn't it?--by doing it: not word-by-word-exactly-correct, but with mistakes and misunderstandings, in bits and gulps and clumps that finally begin to stick together and make sense. Literature is a major tool for understanding the world and the life we have to live, and we learn to use it by using it.”

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Book:Cheek by Jowl: Talks and Essays on How and Why Fantasy Matters
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