Use of symbols that penetrate very deeply into human nature, beyond what words and correspondences can explain. Therese of Lisieux, the plays of ancient Greece and Shakespeare. Jung, Christopher Alexander, Stephanie Meyer, the movie “The Piano,” the art of Joseph Cornell, the spiritual memoir of St. Why do I love her books so much? One of my chief intellectual interests is a subject that I call “symbols beyond words”: Virginia Woolf, Elias Canetti, Flannery O’Connor, J. Just the words “The Lonely Doll” sent a shiver down my spine as a child, I get a chill as an adult from titles like “The Little One,” “Take Me Home” and “Make Me I ordered copies of her picture books many are out of print, and shockingly expensive. Wright lived just down the street from my apartment). The Search for Dare Wright” (and learned that for many years, Ms. I read Jean Nathan’s fascinating biography, “The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: When I picked up these books again as an adult, to read them to my daughters, I developed a mini-obsession with Dare Wright. In whose house did Edith and the bears live? Who was the unseen woman who had the pumps, the jewelry, the lipstick that tempted Edith and Little Bear into mischief? How did the bears know I loved her books (like “The Lonely Doll,” “A Gift From the Lonely Doll” and “Edith and Mr. Bear and this is Little Bear.” – Dare Wright, “The Lonely Doll”Īs a child, I was fascinated by the beautiful, eerie world of Dare Wright. Then one morning Edith looked into the garden and there stood two bears!
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