"I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.“


-Ursula K. Le Guin

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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

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