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It's not like she has her value system, which kind of clashes with what she finds. She's like a Tabula Rasa at the beginning, and she's quite childlike and very open. And so it's not just the way, the very restricted way in which she actually reads the world that appealed to me. I wanted some of that childlike freshness and openness and naivety to survive all the way through the text in her.

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3d ago

characters in books are artificial. I mean, we're making that kind of leap anyway. When we read books and get weepy over the fate of some character, we're not weeping over a real person. We've put ourselves into some kind of space where we're relating to kind of created beings.

5d ago

It's not like, you know, she has her value system, which kind of clashes with what she finds. She's like a tabula rasa at the beginning, and she's quite childlike and very open. I wanted her to remain like a very optimistic character who has a childlike faith in the presence of something good and protective in the world, even as she learns all these other things, darker things about the human world that she occupies.

5d ago

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