#time quartet

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[september1st1899]

[vifetoile]

A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’engle

Cover illustration by Jody Lee; a Dell Yearling Book

[crescent-rolls4]

I always think about songs that fit with fictional characters. With my Undertale hyperfixation came relating it to (mainly) the Dreemurrs. I think a song that fits them well is “Time Quartet” from Tuck Everlasting the Musical.

(P.S. that entire musical fits so many characters, might make a post about it)

[chavisory]

Something I had not clocked until I went looking for commentary on Goodreads, and would not ever, ever have guessed, is that L’Engle didn’t finish the original Time quartet, and then write the second generation quartet.

She published A Wrinkle in Time (1962), and then she published The Arm of the Starfish (1965).

A Wind in the Door wasn’t published until 1973.

Which on one hand... kind of explains the incongruity of Calvin’s character between Wrinkle and Starfish. She’d envisioned what came ~20 years after the events of the first book, but not written anything that actually happened in between.

On the other, it’s kind of remarkable how completely sketched out the whole trajectory and world of this family of novels had to have already been in her mind for it to have turned out even remotely as coherently as it did, being written that way.

[sadsassylibrarian]

Something that everyone needs to understand

[joemerl]

So, in recent years Hollywood has ruined Percy Jackson, the Time Quintet and now Artemis Fowl. The good news is, I’m only a casual fan of these franchises because I discovered each of them as an adult! They haven’t ruined any books from my childhood yet! Ha ha ha ha!

Oh, yeah, that’ll probably suck. Still, I’m not that attached to—

Oh, no.

[retvenkos]

tuck songs + lyrics pt. 3