Beginning One's Life Story
One of [Philip] Pullman's* beliefs is that your life begins when you are born, but your life story begins when you realize that you were delivered into the wrong family by mistake.
[From: Laura Miller, "Far From Narnia", The New Yorker, 26 December 2005 & 2 January 2006 (double issue), p. 58.]
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* Philip Pullman is the author of a cycle of "children's" books known collectively as His Dark Materials.
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on Friday, 6 January 2006 at 01.45
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Or, maybe worse in some metaphysical sense, when one dedides they were delivered into the wrong family on purpose.
Gosh, is the notion of being part of the wrong family supposed to be universal? Because if it is, I must've missed out. I recall episodes of being plenty put out with various of my kin. But I don't recall feeling I should've been born into some other clan.