"It’s not nice to think of children growing up like mushrooms, in the dark.

It’s not nice to think of children growing up like mushrooms, in the dark.
~ Shirley Jackson (physicist) ~












It’s not nice to think of children growing up like mushrooms, in the dark.
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"Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, but some, to dream.
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"I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.
"When they were silent for a moment the quiet weight of the house pressed down from all around them.
"...Don't be surprised, and I say it darkly, do not be surprised if you lose your Luke in this cause; perhaps Mrs. Dudley has not yet had her own mid m...
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. ...
"She wants her cup of stars.
"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.
"Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, but some, to dream.
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. ...
"I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.
"When they were silent for a moment the quiet weight of the house pressed down from all around them.