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October 13, 2024
It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?
but how you going to find out about things if you don't ask questions?
"Well, that is one of the things to find out sometime. Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive-it's such
an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?
But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?"
Oh, PRETTY doesn't seem the right word to use. Nor beautiful, either. They don't go far enough.
"He's got one about eleven. Her name is Diana." "Oh!" with a long indrawing of breath. "What a perfectly lovely name!"
"Matthew Cuthbert, who's that?"