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First you have to copy it. Then the original is taken away and you have to draw it from memory. Most adults are pretty good at this task, and they use the same strategy: they start by drawing the outlines of the figure, then fill in the details. Children, on the other hand, use a piecemeal approach: they randomly do one chunk of the drawing, then move on to another bit.
Talking to Strangers
Malcolm Gladwell
(as our shadows still walk without us)
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
Recalling how, as a child, she’d been subject to little spells of anxiety about being lost. All children must feel this anxiety in some way. Lostness as a condition of which no one can speak clearly for it is a mystery—the lostness deep within the soul.
Daddy Love
Joyce Carol Oates
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