Posted on 17/05/08
Myth, metamorphosis and metaphor
GIRL MEETS BOY By Ali Smith Knopf Canada, 161 pages, $25Once upon a time, we were all young and impressionable and willing to believe in happy endings. As children, we loved the familiarity and comfort of stories, the repetition of important detail by a trusted voice, the revisiting of imaginary episodes which gradually expanded our understanding of the world. As adults, like it or not, we tend to examine our lives against what we learned from those early story templates, particularly when - the cliché fits well here - we've lost the plot; we look to find a new one, something we can wrap around us like a cloak.
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