![]() Haven’t most of us lost the capability of playing? Speaking for myself, I get bored after just ten minutes of playing, often less… In fact, I get exhausted. ![]() But do we really? Do we always know what is best for children or are there some things they know better? Like, how to play. This may just seem like a funny statement because growing up is, of course, something to desire and adults always know best. To this Pippi replies that growing up isn’t something to strive for and then she offers the children some magical pills to prevent them from ever growing up. Last night as I was reading Pippi Longstocking to my children we came across this great passage where the children, Tommy and Annika, tell Pippi that they never want to grow up because adults aren’t fun and don’t know how to play. “Ooh, that you are forced to grow up!” (free translation from Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking in the South Seas, 1948) “They don’t know how to play either,” said Annika. They just have a lot of boring work, stupid clothes and calluses and taxes.” (….) ![]() “I never want to grow up,” he (Tommy) said determinedly. ![]()
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In may 1883, when he was 13 years old, he married to 14 years old Kasturba Gandhi later on, after completing his Law studies in London, he practiced law for several years in South Africa and fought against racialism there. Later on, he joined Alfred high school for his higher studies. From a very early age, he was in love with books and school lessons. ![]() He started his elementary education at a local school in Rajkot near his home. ![]() Mahatma Gandhi was born on 2nd October 1869 in a Gujrati family. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story starts off with Ellie Arroway as a young girl and follows her through her teens, her young adulthood, her work on the SETI project and all the way to the definite climax of her life where she (and a few others) makes contract with the ET's. But, as it is, I actually like Contact a lot, so it should not be a problem to stay objective. Maybe this will sound a bit cold hearted but if I had not liked Contact, I would probably have had to wait a few hours, before I gave it a good trashing. I'm about to write a review of a book by a person, that I just a few minutes ago found out to be dead. ![]() Contact is the first I have read by Carl Sagan and (shame on me) I don't know anything about him, so I do a search on his name on the web and it takes me about two minutes to find that he has just died, this December (1996)! 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As someone else wrote on Goodreads, anything more than 5 or ten pages and my brain turned to mush and I had to sleep. I waded through this fairly short novel over the course of about 3 weeks and it was a slog. Why? Because I don’t quite know what happened and by the end my head was spinning from the sheer volume of words that had no real meaning and no real sense of purpose. In fact, this novel has me stumped more than Sound and the Fury. I honestly don’t know where to start with this review. ![]() ![]() ![]() But above all else, it’s a story about perseverance and trust that will restore your faith in the power of friendship. This beautifully written debut is an exciting adventure and heart-wrenching survival tale. 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