Best Thing I Saw Today #53: Chabon on Telling Stories

“A mind is not blown, in spite of whatever Hollywood seems to teach, merely by action sequences, things exploding, thrilling planetscapes, wild bursts of speed.

“Those are good things. But a mind is blown when something you always feared but knew to be impossible turns out to be true; when the world turns out to be far vaster, far more marvelous or malevolent than you ever dreamed; when you get proof that everything is connected to everything else, that everything you know is wrong, that you are both the center of the universe and a tiny speck sailing off its nethermost edge.”

The peerless Michael Chabon on storytelling for children. Read and digest.

Also, while we’re on the subject, here’s one of my favourite extracts from Kavalier and Clay again, for those of you who missed it the first time around.