"I suspect you'll have no choice but to go down in history. And thus, when you're ultimately set loose upon the world." He shrugged, his smile lazy as an old dog. For them, you will be a speck somewhere above the horizon. When a teacher asks the class to interpret Paradise Lost, no one will be able to grab your coattails, sweet, for you will be flying far, far out in front of them all. You'll know the man sitting on an apple crate outside a gas station in Cheerless, Texas, who lost his legs in Vietnam, the woman in the tollboth outside Dismal, Delaware, in possession of six children, a husband with black lung but no teeth. Having already won best short film for kids-up-to-six at Prix Jeunesse and a best animated short for kids at Belgium’s Anima 2020, it took top TV honors at this year’s Annecy, winning the. After your travels, you'll know Maple Street, sure, but also wilderness and ruins, carnivals and the moon. Every Betsy sitting next to you in a classroom will only know Maple Street on which sits her boxy white house, inside of which whimper her boxy white parents. To be stupid is to die.' And so we shall live. Millet wrote in Ages of Exploration: 'To be still is to be stupid. Think of The Motorcycle Diaries, or what Montrose St. “Dad on Child-rearing: "There's no education superior to travel.
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