{"id":9494,"date":"2024-11-30T19:58:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T23:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/a-subtle-and-soulful-illustrated-fable-about-memory-and-mystery-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2024-11-30T19:58:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T23:58:47","slug":"a-subtle-and-soulful-illustrated-fable-about-memory-and-mystery-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/a-subtle-and-soulful-illustrated-fable-about-memory-and-mystery-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"A Subtle and Soulful Illustrated Fable about Memory and Mystery \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the things no one tells us as we grow up is that we will be living in a world rife with ghosts \u2014 all of our disappointed hopes and our outgrown dreams, all the abandoned novels and unproven theorems, all the people we used to love, all the people we used to be. A ghost is a palpable presence of an absence charged with feeling, the contour of something half-known, half-remembered, half-forgotten \u2014 a halfway house between what we understand and what we cannot, between what we have let go and what we cannot. <\/p>\n

Children are especially prone to perceiving ghosts because childhood itself is such a halfway house between imagination and reality, because what they know is so small against the vastness of what there is yet to know and what may never be known that they invent their own answers to the immense open question of life, answers wild and wondrous and often true. <\/p>\n

Writer Kyo Maclear and artist Katty Maurey conjure up this primal reckoning with the unknowns of love and loss in There\u2019s a Ghost in the Garden<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (public library<\/em><\/a>) \u2014 the subtle and soulful story of a little boy who believes a ghost haunts his grandfather\u2019s garden. <\/p>\n

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In the course of trying to discern the source and nature of the ghostly presence \u2014 a ghost mischievous but friendly, knocking down flower pots, leaving \u201clittle presents\u201d in the bird nest and tracks on the path that \u201cwas once a cool, dark stream\u201d \u2014 the boy discovers that his grandfather also had a childhood, that inside the old man lives the ghost of a long-ago boy who also had fantasies and fears, who also used to play in the flickering sunlight, who once swam in the stream that is now a dry path. <\/p>\n

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As the two converse, shadows flit across the gloaming garden \u2014 a hare, a fox, a deer, a bird \u2014 never fully revealing themselves, there and then gone, as the stars, clear and constant, rise in the night. <\/p>\n

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There is no grandmother in the picture \u2014 only a young boy and an old man talking about ghosts, about what is remembered, about the seen and the unseen.<\/p>\n

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What emerges from the story is the intimation that forgetting \u2014 those who have left us, and the parts of ourselves we have left behind \u2014 is a kind of death, but we can come back from it through memory and love, which twine the lifeline tethering us to everything that is beautiful and enduring.<\/p>\n

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Complement There\u2019s a Ghost in the Garden<\/em><\/strong><\/a> with a different lens on the garden and the spirit<\/a> and a different lens on the living ghost in each of us \u2014 the mystery of what makes you and your childhood self the same person<\/a>, despite a lifetime of physical and psychological change.<\/p>\n

Illustrations courtesy of Enchanted Lion Books; photographs by Maria Popova<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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