\n “It is a curious sensation when a young person realizes she or he is not altogether the child of that person\u2019s natural parents. Freud reduced such a sensation to \u2018the changeling fantasy,\u2019 in which you imagine you are a faery child, plucked away by adoptive parents who then masquerade as a natural mother and father. But is it only a fantasy to locate, in the self, a magical or occult element, older than any other component of the self?”<\/span><\/em>\u00a0Harold Bloom,\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Omens of the\u00a0Millennium<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n Admission of Gilt\u00a0<\/span><\/u> \nDo you know that I flutter with butterflies? \nThat my heart beats like hummingbird wings? \nDo you know I\u2019ve the kind of a natural mind \nThat knows what the hummingbird sings? \n\u200b \nMay I give you a tour of The Garden, \nJust once through and you, too, will see\u2014\u00a0<\/strong> \nThat the Lord has just granted your pardon, \n\u200bYou\u2019ve been given permission to Be!<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n \n \n \n
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