Hm. Your reviews always make me think. One of the things I do think is lost with adulthood is potential. A baby has, at least in the mind of a third party, the potential to be anything. A child can be almost anything (though even there choices start to be curtailed). An adult... has become the person s/he is, to a large extent.
(Not that it's a bad thing. Or a good thing. It just is. If I may use a dorky physics metaphor, because that's how I roll, it's like the interchangeability of potential and kinetic energy. An adult is all kinetic, a baby is all potential, but they're both energy: different ways of looking at it. But I think there can be a certain amount of perceived loss inherent in looking back at it, even if that loss is an illusion.)
When I originally started this comment, I was going to say, maybe that's part of what's behind this idea of adulthood losing the ability to do magic... but you know what? I don't think so, except in, perhaps, something like Hero and the Crown, where adulthood means making choices that sometimes do or don't preclude other things. For a while. Which is, I think? what you were saying this book does as well.
(Um, I think I'm being even more incoherent than normal, which is kind of impressive. Long day!)
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Date: 2012-08-06 02:57 am (UTC)(Not that it's a bad thing. Or a good thing. It just is. If I may use a dorky physics metaphor, because that's how I roll, it's like the interchangeability of potential and kinetic energy. An adult is all kinetic, a baby is all potential, but they're both energy: different ways of looking at it. But I think there can be a certain amount of perceived loss inherent in looking back at it, even if that loss is an illusion.)
When I originally started this comment, I was going to say, maybe that's part of what's behind this idea of adulthood losing the ability to do magic... but you know what? I don't think so, except in, perhaps, something like Hero and the Crown, where adulthood means making choices that sometimes do or don't preclude other things. For a while. Which is, I think? what you were saying this book does as well.
(Um, I think I'm being even more incoherent than normal, which is kind of impressive. Long day!)