so what's up with the trope where children have access to magic and then lose it as a prerequisite to growing up? where does it come from, what is it for?
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it’s just the truth but dramatized for effect
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“By middle/high school, the average student has learned how normal people talk. The resulting language is underwhelming and predictable - the safe regurgitations of a thoroughly socialized consciousness.” poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2013/0
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i guess i'm sad that even someone like c.s. lewis sees it as inevitable or even necessary :(
(but also maybe there's things that happen when the pevensies grow up that i don't know about yet hmm)
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i just finished dawn treader shhhhh