I’ve done an enormous amount of reading over the past three days or so. Besides Hesse’s Demian, which I finished today, I also read Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, and A Wind in the Door. Neither of these did I much remember since the last time I read them when I was in fourth or fifth grade. Wrinkle was okay, but Wind I think turned out to be the better book by far. Although, I have to say I did like A Swiftly Tilting Planet pretty well too, which I read again a few weeks back. Anyway, I wanted to type in a quote from Wrinkle that I rather liked. It turns out it’s actually from the old Bible, and can be found in full in 1st Corinthians. But the part she uses is from verses 25-28. One of the characters tells it to Meg to help her defeat the evil brain (”IT”) which has taken possession of her little brother, Charles Wallace on the planet Camazotz:

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called, but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought the things that are.

[I guess there is also some movie they made of Wrinkle in Time also, but I heard that it really sucks. Actually, I think Madeleine L’Engle herself said it was awful in an interview I read.]