A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1) A Wrinkle in Time question


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What does this line mean to you?
Saski Saski (last edited Aug 15, 2012 01:00PM ) Aug 14, 2012 10:31AM
"...it was meant to make me not hate being only me, and me being the way I am." (italics mine - page 205)

I was so startled to see this. It is a question I struggled with since I was very young, at least as I have interpreted it, which is I am stuck here in this body, and only this body. I will only experience things through this body and I will never ever experience anything from any other perspective.

This idea tormented me, would throw me down a dark whirlpool from which I almost could not exit. I have only spoken of it once, again when I was very young, and the response I received was "Don't be ridiculous! That's how life is. Get over it."

Has anyone else felt this?

What does this line mean to you?



This was Meg's interpretation of 1 Corinthians 1:25-28 that Mrs. Who quoted to her before she went to save Charles Wallace.


I thought it was that time is typically linear but along comes a wrinkle and everything changes. Is time relative? Are there parallels of time? Other lives we are leading that we are unaware of until time becomes wrinkled???? Crazy? While I'm at it, could someone explain the meaning of life :)


Do you mean that you would like to experience life from inside another person or another body? (Like Meg is saying she is only one me instead of many?) Or do you mean you feel like your body limits you in some way? (Like Meg is saying she's "only me"... someone who has trouble loving herself?)

For me, it's the latter that sometimes tortures me. I sometimes feel like my body doesn't match who I am... I don't feel like how I look. So, it sometimes feels like my body is a limiting trap.

I sometimes look at others and wonder if they feel the same way. I look at people who are often ignored by society and wonder what's inside of them.

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Saski I understand what you mean by the latter, but it was actually the former that troubled/s me, especially as a kid. I felt (and feel) so stuck, it seeme ...more
Sep 12, 2012 11:26AM · flag

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