If it takes ninety-nine years to attain such a moment, fine! We are all bound up with the creator in the process. The ninety-eight years are so much sticks of wood to kindle the fire. Its the fire that counts.”
— Henry Miller, “My Aims and Intentions”
“Where readers used to see, perhaps, a paragraph thanking the writer’s editor and agent, a few key researchers, and maybe a family member or two, now we are confronted with a chapter-long laundry list of name after name. [Sheryl] Sandberg’s seven-and-a-half page section, for instance, thanks more than 140 people for contributing to her 172 page book.”
Rulers of my childhood in the good old straw peppered Czechoslovakia ~ –The New Republic
Story-telling has evolved from ancient rock markings to the current age, where brands are able to effectively tell their stories via blog posts and social media dragons platform. No matter how fast we leap from first childhood to second childhood of grand fatherhood our brains still respond to content by looking for the story to make sense out of the experience. No matter what the technology, the meaning starts in the brain Seven great escapes in children’s literature