And it's worse than perverse to encourage a child to feel herself guilty for the violent death of her younger sibling.
Honestly. If I could have edited the piece or withheld it, I would have. Perhaps I should have refused the order to print it, after all. And of course, the spell transferred the whole thing, potion, cauldron and flame, onto my journal page precisely as it appeared in her letter.
It doesn't help that the officious woman may find herself in the soup as a result: the damage it's done to this one child (and how many others?) can't be reversed.
And yet, I can't help but feel ambivalent because there are ways in which this whole initiative from UWP is spot on: we live in a very dangerous world under a government that is in no way protecting us, and these journals are no small part of the danger!
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Date: 2010-05-10 12:23 am (UTC)Honestly. If I could have edited the piece or withheld it, I would have. Perhaps I should have refused the order to print it, after all. And of course, the spell transferred the whole thing, potion, cauldron and flame, onto my journal page precisely as it appeared in her letter.
It doesn't help that the officious woman may find herself in the soup as a result: the damage it's done to this one child (and how many others?) can't be reversed.
And yet, I can't help but feel ambivalent because there are ways in which this whole initiative from UWP is spot on: we live in a very dangerous world under a government that is in no way protecting us, and these journals are no small part of the danger!
I hate this sort of irony. I really do.