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[....] Blyton isn’t really concerned with the not-child, except from the child’s perspective. There is none of Carroll’s somewhat sinisterly manicured dual-focus and telephoto-lens work.

I'm savoring ever page. Wonderful.

As David Bowie liked to say: ‘Let go, or be dragged.’

Chapter 1: Covid period. Told in 3rd person.

"[Daddy] said that what uncanny has that weird doesn’t have is a feeling of the strangely familiar. He told her that in his lectures he’d encouraged his students to think about the meaning of ‘uncanny’ in terms of creepily uncomfortable recognition. The familiar becoming unfamiliar.... also the unfamiliar itself as spookily already known."