![]() ![]() ![]() He got off the funicular downtown, but instead of taking the trolley he set out walking toward his own district he had always liked to walk.Īlong past Lovejoy Park a piece of the old freeway was still standing, a huge ramp, probably dating from the last frenetic convulsions of highway-mania in the seventies, it must have led up to the Marquam Bridge, once, but now ended abruptly in mid-air thirty feet above Front Avenue. He would go home, and take no drugs, but sleep, and dream what dreams might come. He would accept the monsters and the necessities beyond reason. ![]() If this was being, perhaps the void was better. This life lacked realness it was hollow the dream, creating where there was no necessity to create, had worn thin and sleazy. He knew that in so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void. ![]() He was aware that in thus relegating to irreality a major portion of the only reality, the only existence, that he in fact did have, he was running exactly the same risk the insane mind runs: the loss of the sense of free will. Although his memory assured him that he had held that position for five years now, he disbelieved his memory the job had no reality to him. It was only three o’clock, and he should have gone back to his office in the Parks Department and finished up the plans for southeast suburban play areas but he didn’t. Excerpt from The Lathe of Heaven Chapter 10 ![]()
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Grace talks about writing the original book in 1991, how it became an underground classic, how her views on education (and her relationship to her 26-year-old voice) evolved over three decades, and how the book was updated for the 21st century. In this episode we discuss the third (and final) edition of The Teenage Liberation Handbook, released in late 2021. Grace Llewellyn is the author of The Teenage Liberation Handbook, the founder of Not Back to School Camp, a one-time middle school English teacher, and a luminary in the unschooling movement. 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