Word: tatar
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...Instead, Tatar describes her experience on “entry through images.” Fascinated by the pictures, she would figure out which ones corresponded to which stories and then go to the library to look them...
...Childhood reading stays with you in a way no other reading does,” Tatar says. In some indirect way, the Grimms led her to the study of German...
...graduate school, when Tatar discovered that the Grimms did not appear on any reading list, she decided to remedy it. “I came back to it through a sort of circuitous route,” she says...
...Tatar says that her experience led her to understand “how deeply all of us are influence by these stories in childhood.” Furthermore, “it is often not the whole story, but only one moment that stays with...
...Tatar calls this the Turkish Delight Syndrome, after a student who read about the candy in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and grew to think of it as having almost magic properties. It wasn’t until years later that he actually tried the stuff, and discovered, much to his chagrin, that he didn’t like the taste...