“A magician does not send messages, you know—he orchestrates reality.”
Source: Stations of the Tide (1991), Chapter 7, “Who Is the Black Beast?” (p. 119)
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“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.”
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Introduction
The Disappearance of Childhood (1982)
Context: Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. From a biological point of view it is inconceivable that any culture will forget that it needs to reproduce itself. But it is quite possible for a culture to exist without a social idea of children. Unlike infancy, childhood is a social artifact, not a biological category.
