Current mood:

sad

Madeleine L'Engle
A long and prolific life ends, and pinkfinity posted an excellent meme to commemorate L'Engle's life and works:

When you see this on your flist, post a quotation from a book by Madeleine L'Engle in your LJ/blog/journal/etc.

I have spent the last hour looking for my copy of A Wrinkle in Time, which used to reside on my son's bookshelf, and have regretfully concluded that when we painted his room he packed it up with the Hardy Boys books that we have given away, because I can't find it anywhere. So, this quote is from memory, and it's going to be rough:

"Meg felt as though she were being flattened by a steamroller. 'Oh,' said Mrs. Whatsit, "That's a two-dimensional planet and I forgot the children can't manage there.'"

I think that's not a bad effort, considering that I haven't opened the book in at least 20 years.

Oddly, this line is the only one that has stayed with me all these years, I think because after reading AWIT for the first time, I found myself speculating on space, time and dimensionality, whether the tesseract made sense and what other dimensions might exist that we could not even imagine.

If anyone could supply the exact quote, I would be most appreciative. And I'm going to keep looking for my copy.