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”We wowe a web in childhood A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard-seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age – Are they withered in the sod? Faded! the web is still of air, But how its folds are spread, And from its tints of crimson clear How deep a glow is shed… The mustard-seed in distant land Bends down a mighty tree, The dry unbudding almond-wand Has touched eternity. Charlotte Brontë, Retrospection , (1835) Med detta vemodiga poem inleder A S Byatt ” The Game ”, (1967). Boken handlar om barndom, …”

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