| Madeleine L'Engle's Brooch | |
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Origin |
Madeleine L'Engle |
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Type |
Tesseract-styled Brooch |
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Effects |
Skips between locations with ease to fit one’s current inclination |
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Downsides |
Relates inexplainable emotions into distorted representations in the real world |
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Activation |
Wearing while harboring feelings of confusion and wanderlust |
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Collected by |
Warehouse 13 |
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Section |
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Aisle |
878308-400 |
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Shelf |
348094-6481-482 |
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Date of Collection |
June 30, 2021 |
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Origin[]
Madeleine L'Engle (November 29, 1918– September 6, 2007) was an American writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young adult fiction, including A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels. Her works reflect both her Christian faith and her strong interest in modern science. L'Engle believed in universal salvation and as a result, many fundamentalist Christian bookstores refused to carry her books, which were also frequently banned from evangelical schools and libraries. At the same time, some of her most secular critics attacked her work for being too religious.
L'Engle wrote her first story aged five and began keeping a journal aged eight. These early literary attempts did not translate into academic success at the New York City private school where she was enrolled. A shy, clumsy child, she was branded as stupid by some of her teachers. Unable to please them, she retreated into her own world of books and writing. L'Engle determined to give up writing on her 40th birthdaywhen she received yet another rejection notice. "With all the hours I spent writing, I was still not pulling my own weight financially." Soon she discovered both that she could not give it up and that she had continued to work on fiction subconsciously.
Soon after winning the Newbery Medal for her 1962 "junior novel" A Wrinkle in Time, L'Engle discussed children's books in The New York Times Book Review. The writer of a good children's book, she observed, may need to return to the:
- "intuitive understanding of his own childhood," being childlike although not childish. She claimed, "It's often possible to make demands of a child that couldn't be made of an adult... A child will often understand scientific concepts that would baffle an adult. This is because he can understand with a leap of the imagination that is denied the grown-up who has acquired the little knowledge that is a dangerous thing." Of philosophy, etc., as well as science, "the child will come to it with an open mind, whereas many adults come closed to an open book. This is one reason so many writers turn to fantasy (which children claim as their own) when they have something important and difficult to say."
A Wrinkle in Time[]
The main characters – Meg Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, and Calvin O'Keefe – embark on a journey through space and time, from galaxy to galaxy, as they endeavor to rescue the Murrys' father and fight back The Black Thing that has intruded into several worlds. The novel offers a glimpse into the war between light and darkness, and good and evil, as the young characters mature into adolescents on their journey. The novel wrestles with questions of spirituality and purpose, as the characters are often thrown into conflicts of love, divinity, and goodness. It is the first book in L'Engle's Time Quintet, which follows the Murry family and O'Keefe.
Each of the books contains one or more instances of tessering, carrying the protagonists to metaphysical battlegrounds in the cosmic struggle between good and evil. The eponymous "wrinkle in time" is a short hop to the immediate past engineered by the Mrs. Ws to allow Meg, Calvin and Charles Wallace to accomplish their mission and return before they are missed at home. In A Wind in the Door, Proginoskes takes Meg to "yesterday" to show her the Echthroi destroying a patch of stars. Charles Wallace spends most of A Swiftly Tilting Planet "Within" the bodies and minds of people from the past, traveling there by a winged unicorn. Many Waters finds Sandy and Dennys stranded in the time of Noah after using their father's computer while an experiment is in progress.
Effects[]
Must wear while under a continual state of inner conflict, turmoil or uncertainty paired with a desire to travel, leave their problems or seek out adventure. Lets the wearer flicker from one point to another far away in the blink of an eye. Knowing the general destination type will narrow down their landing spots, while going in full steam ahead leaves them in the most random locations they would never have conceived of until then. More volatility in their outlook makes them transition without even noticing, jumping from one area to the next that best matches their desires or outlook.
Manifests all the unspoken, difficult to describe in words emotional responses they have into reality. Causes shifts in the last several places they visited. Starts with environmental factors such as the land’s shape or passage of time. Effects people by changing their physical form to become less human or transform their minds into unrecognizable beings. Distortions continue as long as the person is traveling without resolving their issues.