Friday Night Verse
AP – ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Author L’Engle Dies
Author Madeleine L’Engle, whose novel “A Wrinkle in Time” has captivated generations of schoolchildren and adults since the 1960s, has died, her publicist said Friday. She was 88. L’Engle died Thursday at a nursing home in Litchfield, said Jennifer Doerr, publicity manager for publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
I saw eternity the other night<br/> Like a great ring of pure and endless light,<br/> All calm as it was bright,<br/> And round beneath it time in hours, days, years,<br/> Driven by the spheres,<br/> Like a vast shadow moved in which the world<br/> And all her train were hurled.
September 8th, 2007 at 6:40 am
:( Eh, it was time.
Ask me in 30 years if what’s her name had a similar impact.
September 10th, 2007 at 1:11 am
So what’s with the Metaphysics? Vaughan’s awfully good.
September 10th, 2007 at 8:16 am
You’d just have to read her books to know that, wouldn’t you.
Isn’t he? Profoundly affecting when I was 12.
September 11th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
The current one. You know the movie one.
September 11th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
What movie one do I know? I’ve never seen any movies made of her books. Didn’t even know there were any till I saw the Wiki entry links to them and instantly put them on my list of Movies Not To Show My Kids. Should there ever be any.