Opposite Contraries (2003)
“She was two years older than I. My sister Lizzie, two years older than Alice, thought she knew everything. My great big sister did know everything. Mother knew all about God, and Father knew all about earth. I knew more than baby Dick and yet I was always wondering.
There were a great many things to wonder about. Some of the wonderings started inside you, almost like a stomach ache. Others started in things which you saw or smelled or heard or felt or tasted. The wonder lived in them but rushed... out and tapped and tapped until you let it inside your head, and when it got into your head it ran round and round until you asked a grown-up about it. Then the wonder stopped plaguing you.
Just before we were called in from the garden to go to bed, the flowers all looked nodding and heavy-loaded, the birds had called goodnight, and Bong, the China boy, had finished washing up [and] was starting for Chinatown, looking very nice in a cloth coat buttoned with tiny round buttons up one side and high up to the throat.MoreLess
There were a great many things to wonder about. Some of the wonderings started inside you, almost like a stomach ache. Others started in things which you saw or smelled or heard or felt or tasted. The wonder lived in them but rushed... out and tapped and tapped until you let it inside your head, and when it got into your head it ran round and round until you asked a grown-up about it. Then the wonder stopped plaguing you.
Just before we were called in from the garden to go to bed, the flowers all looked nodding and heavy-loaded, the birds had called goodnight, and Bong, the China boy, had finished washing up [and] was starting for Chinatown, looking very nice in a cloth coat buttoned with tiny round buttons up one side and high up to the throat.MoreLess
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