“It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds
when we're coming out of sleep but we're not really awake yet. For those
few seconds we're something more primitive than what we are about to
become. We have just slept the sleep of our most distant ancestors, and
something of them and their world still clings to us. For those few
moments we are unformed, uncivilized. We are not the people we know as
ourselves, but creatures more in tune with a tree than a keyboard. We
are untitled, unnamed, natural, suspended between was and will be, the
tadpole before the frog, the worm before the butterfly. We are for a few
brief moments, anything and everything we could be. And then...and then
-- ah -- we open our eyes and the day is before us and ... we become
ourselves.”
- Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl
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