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@MadeleineLEngle
Nov 20, 2019 • 16 tweets • 10 min read • Read on X
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A thread with photos of the #lengleconference sessions from this past weekend. Starting with @HolyDreaming's opening keynote. Image
Learning from Madeleine. With @StephanieCowell @JudithLindbergh @olugbemisola and Pamela Leggett Image
@diversebooks presents: The New Generation of Meg Murrys. With @ctrichmond @Sayantani16 @heidiheilig and @KarunaRiazi Image
Madeleine in conversation with Buddhism, with Edward Jones Image
Katherine Paterson gives the keynote address Image
Icons of the True: Adapting Novels for Film. With Peter Royston, @madebyhand5 @KairosFilm and David Paterson Image
Listening to the Work. With Seth Little, Albert Pedulla, Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, and @audreyassad Image
Feeding the Lake: A Journaling Workshop with @Sophfronia Image
Writing a Writer's Life: The Art of Biography. With @abbystweets and @LAWhalen13 Image
Glorious Impossibles: Writing about faith for younger readers. With @olugbemisola @ibizoboi @KarinaYanGlaser and @VeeraHira Image
On-site bookstore by @BooksofWonder Image
Reading Like Madeleine: A lunch conversation with @LindsayWrites Image
Conference closing with @charlottejv Image
Musician-in-Residence @audreyassad Image
Friday retreat with Barbara Braver Image
Many, many thanks to co-directors @HolyDreaming and @writing4urlife, host @AllAngelsChurch and additional in-kind contributors @MacKidsBooks @penguinrandom @OpenRoadMedia @smithcollege @Image_Journal

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Aug 10, 2021
There is a story of an old man who lived by a river. In the spring the rains were heavy, and the river rose. The sheriff came by in his jeep, and said to the old man, “The river is going to flood, and I want to evacuate you.” 1/
The old man folded his arms confidently. “I have faith in God. God will take care of me.”
The sheriff shook his head and drove off.
The river continued to rise. It lapped about the old man’s house, rising up to the porch. The sheriff came by in a row boat, and said, 2/
“The river is continuing to rise. I really need to evacuate you.”
The old man looked at the river which covered his steps and lapped across the porch. He folded his arms. “I have faith in God. God will take care of me.”
The sheriff shook his head, and rowed away. 3/
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Sep 26, 2020
Thread: Many people think that Camazotz in #wrinkleintime is an allegory for soviet-style communism. This is not the case. Image
While Madeleine L'Engle was convinced that any *ism* leads to dehumanizing generalities, she knew that totalitarianism lurked under the surface of American democracy.
In earlier drafts of Wrinkle, she had a passage about how democracies become dark. She tried to make it work in two different places in the story, but it was too didactic and was cut.
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Jun 3, 2020
“Mrs Whatsit hates you,” Charles Wallace said.
And that was where IT made ITs fatal mistake, for as Meg said, automatically, “Mrs Whatsit loves me; that’s what she told me, that she loves me,” suddenly she knew.
She knew!
Love.
That was what she had that IT did not have.
She had Mrs Whatsit’s love, and her father’s, and her
mother’s, and the real Charles Wallace’s love, and the
twins’, and Aunt Beast’s.
And she had her love for them.
But how could she use it? What was she meant to do?
If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love. But she, in all her weakness and foolishness [...], was incapable of loving IT. Perhaps it was not too much to ask of her, but she could not do it.
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Jan 13, 2020
I listen to the news and hear of war and rumor of war, of crime and wanton destruction and loss of humanity, and think of Ionesco’s brilliant play, Rhinoceros.
It starts out in a small French village on a Sunday morning; everything is normal and ordinary; the people in the village are very much like the people we know, like us.
Then a rhinoceros strolls through the village square, and this first rhinoceros is like a presage of plague, because the people of the village start, one by one, turning into rhinos;
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Jan 26, 2019
LOVERS APART
In what, love, does fidelity consist?
I will be true to you, of course.
My body’s needs I can resist,
Come back to you without remorse;
And you, behind the footlight’s lure,
Kissing an actress on the stage,
Will leave her presence there, I’m sure,
As I my people on the page.
And yet—I love you, darling, yet
I sat with someone at a table
And gloried in our minds that met
As sometimes strangers’ minds are able
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Nov 4, 2018
"The discoveries made since the heart of the atom was opened have changed our view of the universe and of Creation. Our great radio telescopes are picking up echoes of that primal opening which expanded into all the stars in their courses. 1/4
"The universe is far greater and grander and less predictable than anyone realized, and one reaction to this is to turn our back on the glory and settle for a small, tribal god who forbids questions of any kind. 2/4
"Another reaction is to feel so small and valueless in comparison to the enormity of the universe that it becomes impossible to believe in a God who can be bothered with us tiny, finite creatures with life spans no longer than the blink of an eye. 3/4
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