Just the part of doing needs to be done, and I don't want to get trapped by people who will come to expect that of me. I just want to be a mastermind, not a hired thug.
So, I will write a long novelette for my kids all about a girl exploring the idea of how books are metaphors or explinations of how things could happen around them. The more true a story is the more it can be trusted and loved. The young girl notes how a book is a sort of shared adventure, that so many others have been on and if a book manages to become a classic then it is all the more acceptable to read.
She notes how movies follow the same rules as books. They are just good stories that rely on the director's imagination, whereas books use each reader's. in her own little girlish mind she pieces together how art is subjective and books are art, too. so is history. She shares her favorite paintings with her friends, painted by a blind man. She explained how Beethoven couldn't hear but wonders what would a writter of book be without...
The climax of the story comes as the girl figures out that it is by reading that we feel a part of the world.
