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R.I.P. Madeleine L'Engle

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Dang, this makes me feel old.

She is one of my favorite childhood writers.
The "Wrinkle in Time" series I read over and over and over. Folding of space-time and the tesseract, she introduced me to it all. Her skillful weaving of complex scientific theory and philosophy into a genuinely fun and intriguing storyline was very unusual for kid's books at the time.

Darn it, I'm sad now!


Drink the wind, Ms. L'Engle, drink the wind.
 
Deety;924558; said:
Off to the great tesseract in the sky...

My copies of the "Wrinkle" books were pretty wrinkled, too. I hope they're still as popular with kids as they were then.
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I try to get my 15 year old sister in law to read. She thinks manga is literature. She did read all the Harry Potter stuff so I guess that's something, those are at least pretty thick sets of text instead of all pictures. She's just hitting high school so here comes "English" class!
 
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OCBuckWife;923170; said:
Dang, this makes me feel old.

She is one of my favorite childhood writers.
The "Wrinkle in Time" series I read over and over and over. Folding of space-time and the tesseract, she introduced me to it all. Her skillful weaving of complex scientific theory and philosophy into a genuinely fun and intriguing storyline was very unusual for kid's books at the time.

Darn it, I'm sad now!


Drink the wind, Ms. L'Engle, drink the wind.
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Alsays sad to lose a muse.

Dejah Thoris, Tars Tarkas, and the other inhabitants of Barsoom were not found on NASA missions, but that does not mean that they don't exist.

John Carter was in hiding?

(Damn. I bet nobody knows what I'm talking about)
 
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Gatorubet;924942; said:
Alsays sad to lose a muse.

Dejah Thoris, Tars Tarkas, and the other inhabitants of Barsoom were not found on NASA missions, but that does not mean that they don't exist.

John Carter was in hiding?

(Damn. I bet nobody knows what I'm talking about)
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You ain't the only one that spent time in space with John Carter! Lazarus Long and he even had a personal meeting in "Number of the Beast."
 
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Gatorubet;924942; said:
Alsays sad to lose a muse.

Dejah Thoris, Tars Tarkas, and the other inhabitants of Barsoom were not found on NASA missions, but that does not mean that they don't exist.

John Carter was in hiding?

(Damn. I bet nobody knows what I'm talking about)
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OCBuckWife;924951; said:
You ain't the only one that spent time in space with John Carter! Lazarus Long and he even had a personal meeting in "Number of the Beast."
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Deety has no idea what you are talking about. Maybe I'll have to ask my cosmically transgendered unrelated identical twin.
 
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Gatorubet;924942; said:
Alsays sad to lose a muse.

Dejah Thoris, Tars Tarkas, and the other inhabitants of Barsoom were not found on NASA missions, but that does not mean that they don't exist.

John Carter was in hiding?

(Damn. I bet nobody knows what I'm talking about)
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Ooo! Ooo! I do! I do! (raises waving hand wildly) :tongue2:
 
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Deety;924971; said:
It is better to copulate than never.
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Word!
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Over the weekend, children's author Madeleine L'Engle died at 88. Her most noted work, A Wrinkle in Time, is a story about a girl's journey across the universe in an effort to rescue both her father and the galaxy itself from the evil "Black Thing." The book, which dealt with heady (and un-kid-friendly) concepts like religion, theoretical mathematics and evil, took years to finally find a publisher due to its perceived weirdness. Since finally going into print in 1962, Wrinkle has sold millions of copies and remains a favorite read for young teens today.
One concept L'Engle explored in the book was tessering, a method whereby people could traverse great distances in the universe by "folding" space and time. Although they don't behave in exactly the way L'Engle describes, tesseracts do exist, and serve as important and elegant examples of multidimensional space.
An actual tesseract is best described as a four dimensional cube...and is kind of confusing. So, in memory of L'Engle, we met up with Physicist David Morgan who took a little time out of his day to talk tesseracts with the BPP. Put your measley three-dimensional brains to work on this one.
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