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‘Wrinkle
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A Wninkle in Time
MADELEINE L’ENGLE’S

A
Wrinkle
inJame

HOPE LARSON
For Charles Wadsworth Cano and Wallace Collin Franklin
—M.L.

To Mom and Dad

—HL.
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A Wninkle in Time
 ]
Mrs Whatsit
i — I don't understand how a child with
PF] Like schoo}, parents as brilliant as yours can And then after school—
School's all wrong. 8 be such a poor student = —
j

A delinquent, that's
what I am. That's what
they'll be saying next

Not Mother,
or Sandy and Dennys,
or Charles—but Them
Everybody Else.

I wish Father—
a a c :

Letusdothe &
fighting when “i

We aren't kids anymore, .

Meg. Why do you always (i
act like such a baby?
 Father Only Mother can Wher
talk about him in a natural your father
way. Only Mother can gets back—
say things like
Ff

Even Charles Wallace, who

can always tel) when I'm—
a

I thought
you'd be
awake

ae TE
\'Even though there were hurricane
warmings all day on the radio,
and at any moment~
 ' Fortinbras
Not during a never barks
hurricane, it isn't CA: without a
a privilege! = A y
You asked to have ¥
| the attic bedroom,
§ and Mother let you
have it because
M you're the oldest!
MS
x It's a privilege, not a
xX a punishment! 4
SSL] i -
STGEN SF
Who else would steal twelve sheets?
. — It certainly Vu = And right off the line, too
was 4 tramp. q

Heard from your

father lately?
z 4
SEVEATH STEP
 But suppose it is? Oh, well. I'll make
Why didn’t you Too windy up How does he always know
Suppose he has a Nobody’ care, myself some cocoa
kuife? No one lives near anyhow there—and I knew about me? He knows things
That’l) cheer me up,
enough to hear if we about Mother, too, but never
and if the roof blows
screamed and screamed off, at least 1 won’t go- Dennys or Sandy
and screamed ?

Charles has always

VY Well, I've heard
clever people often have
been different
subnorma! children
Special, Which must
be why people think i The two boys {|
he's seem to be mice, &
regular children— y,

= 4 dy “ |
|
2.
‘a y Sim Yi f
I I put some
milk on the stove
for you. It should
be hot by now.

ye —but that
unattractive girl
and the baby boy It's true he didn’t talk
certainly aren't hill he was almost four,
all there but Father said

21
 Don’t worry about E ) I don’t want ( “Just wait till Charles You know you don’t
him to grow up Wallace starts to talk like it when it gets a
Charles Wallace,
Meg. There's nothing é dumb like me. You'll see” ( skin on top
wrong with him

‘ Zu better check
the milk.

| Tae
He just does q
things in his own

LA
way and in his f

I love you, but that’s not

what tells me. Mother and I You put in more
have given you sevoral tests, than twice enough
milk.
> Pas
¥ I thought
Mother
fo) might
Wlke some
i” 7 —- ot
How do you Anow I’m not
dumb? Isn’t it just because Cocoa, Would you like a That would be lovely,
liverwurst-and-cream- | |but ] can make it myself
cheese sandwich? I'l] be if you're busy
happy to make you one
But both you and Charles will
be able to do pretty much
whatever you like when

Please—but not
liverwurst. Do we have
any tomatoes?
 I told her that since he's a year older and at
All right if That's a nasty Jeast twenty-five pounds heavier than
use it on Meg, bruise the Henderson boy you, I was the one who ought to
Mother? gave you. After you'd gone to be complaining
bed his mother called to
complain about how badly But she
seemed fo think
it was all your
fault

ff No matter
what happens
come let people think it's
better use could all my fault
me }ook at
it be put?
that bruise

I'm sorry I tned

to fight him. It's
know the meaning of just-l’s been an
moderation, do you, my awful week
darling? A happy medium
is something | wonder if
you'll ever learn
I don’t know if
they’re really hike
everybody else, or if they're
just able to pretend they

I'm sorry, Meglet. Maybe

if Father were here he
could help you, but I don't
think | can do much J]
you've managed to plow
through some more
time. Then things will
be easier for you
 Maybe ( > But this is
if Iweren’t so “Ne RSy 4 4 hurricane!
repulsive-looking~ 5 : a Fn) eS The radio kept
maybe if I were >
pretty like you-

‘We'll lose some shingles off the roof, that's certain—

but this house has stood for almost two hundred
years and | think it will Jast a hittle longer

qQ LX
Therefi ! N" ae
i LAW 5
Then she wasairtel ;
at your age y, 7 5 —

How right
you are. Just give

; am : Mrs Whatsit and

What's yee frennd
h ar two frie ds.
C hy
( :
Mrs Whatsit P? .
stand for? “ q P
io \ i
,
Weer(13 AV) VN ah y
; AN i J
“aN 2 F a,
cs

think there's { 5 1 wy
something in 4) “) Qy But ld
the lab?_-4 N24 Ke & I better go see
what's upsetting J
That's her name You | leave any smelly Fort
know the old house back 2 = : chemicals cooking over
in the woods that the kids a Bunsen burner, fh
all say is haunted’ V] A ; ; Mother? A N

26 27
 It isn't so
much that T Jost about tuna.
my Way as that I We're 1 fish salad?
got blown off saving that for
And when I
realized that I was at TecBur’ Dorhaey
hittle Charles Wallace's
house I thought I'd just a
come in and rest a bit
before proceeding

mustn't give into [| F

her, Mother, or I
shall be very

I'l) bet she és the

How did you D 2 ° tramp. I'll bet she
: A. ul h n
passionately = LS did steal those sheets
erbomestie cream cheese, Charles has had : a us?
bad,
x
“vem dese; and has
Char
bread and jam;
lesMeg, fond of Russian

ay
lettuce and tomato 2 caviar 1)

ts =e

30 31
 ~and I didn’t think I was going to like the <
: neighbors at all until dear little 0 you
f* Charles came by with his dog eal ire = pita
Ss) we P off my s

> GY $ 4

Ath | i
‘a

Why did you take If you needed sheets that badly,

Mrs Buncombe's You must return
sheets? them at once. b y

Yon cath ware My toes are ever so

| needed them, } any sheets, Mrs DeRi rececages
Charles, dear /} Buncombe can e s
I never can take them
f 1ts NS , offby myself.
e| LBD Ne é

But, Charles, dear, bas Se

T can't. I've used them ae
Jes X
oars

Tell your PAA

mister I'm all
S 3 night, Charles ss
Moca Tell her my fs
7 =_ tents
intenhons A,
\\ J

—Y OAR IF <
Lit argh
Fl

32 33
 Are you Now
all night, Mrs pull while
Whatsit? I'm already

If you have some

lamemeni, I'll put it on
my dignity. 1 think
it’s sprained

But it's much

too wild a night to
travel in

Ny My stomach is full
Have you ever and I’m warm inside
tred getting up and out and u’s ime
with a sprained I went home
dignity?
Wild mghts are my And speaking of ways,
glory. | just got caught by the way, there is such
in a downdraft and a thing as a tesseract
blown off course

aS
Do please get
up. I don’t like
. NY i 2 “)
} a4
seeing you lying SS — WS on't worry
there that way YY about me, lamb I'll
You're carrying L/ . f f just pop my boots on

meer wr
things too far p and then I'll be on
7 YNfi Wo
auN

G \\n {.
Mrs Who

6
 1 \

I was frightened by
the storm, sol
dreamed | went down
to the kitchen—
We had rather
4 an interrupted
night, if you
/ remember. f&>

1 don’t understand it either,

but one thing I've learned
is that you don’t have to
a ind Mother getting so upset understand things for
about the~what was it?
No, Meg
Don’t hope that.

2
T+
f= father a md I had
a joke about
(/

,~
tesseract
ne
a
 i don’t see why you We know he’s bright, but
What isa didn't wake us. It’s not he's so funny around other
tessoract? It's fair we missed out on \ people, and they're so
concept
all the fun A used to thinking he’s
‘ dumb
You'll be a hot : .
more awake im schoo] y T don’t
than I will know what's
going to happen

ail
= Eo later. There isn't And Charles
mi time before Wallace—he's going to
school have an awful time next
year when he starts

If you're going to let Don't

old tramps come take everything so
inside im the middle
personally, Meg! Use
of the night, Den and
a happy medium
I should be around for once! Let's not worry
to protect you about next year till we
y You havea get through this one French toast,
boys?
great mind and all,
You just make
Father everything harder for
would expect Mother, bul you don’t
have much sense. yourself. Like at school-you
And certainly Mog just goof off and look out
and Charles don't the window

40 41
 What seems to be the Don't you realize that I'm convinced that you
Will you please problem now, you just make everything can do the work and
name the principal Mog? harder for yourself with keep up with your grade
imports and exports of that attitude? if you apply yourself—but
P Nicaragua— PRINCIPAL some of your teachers
TEWANS

BP
of Miss
Porter tells
me you were
re) inexcusably

The principal
imports and You're going to have to
exports of do something about
Nicaragua? yourself Nobody can
do it for you

Everything's
Sine at home

Who cares about the

imports and exports of
Nicaragua, anyhow?!

42
 Just whal was your
father’s hne of business? Do you Mr. Jenkins,
enjoy being the She has
Some kind of scientist, you've met my doctor's degrees in
most belligerent, mother, haven't you?
uncooperative child both biology and
She's a scientist. You bacteriology Her
in schoo]? can’t accuse her of business is facts. When
not facing facts she tells me that my
father isn't coming
home, I'll beheve

fj as she says
A ya Father is coming
J home, then It}
Mog, don't you think They're lots easier to
Oe that
you'd make @ better face than people, I can
adjustment to life if you tel] you.
faced facts?

why don't you face

facts about your father’ 2
Very well, I can't do
anything else with you
Stop bellowing Go on back to class.
Do you want the Try to be a little less
entire schoo] to antagonistic
J

3 } \
work would improve
if your general attitude
were more tractable

44 45
 \ But why are
S we going to see
her now?

I want to
find out more about
that tesseract thing
Didn't you see how it
upset Mother?

I thought
wed better
go see Mrs
Whatsit

contro] the way she L

Oh, feels, when she letsus %
{ golly. Why, see she’s upset

POIpo
She's all right it’s something
She's on our by
side =
 you know she’
going to get in awful \
trouble—Mrs Whatsut, I \
mean-if they find out #
she’s taken Mrs 1
Buncombe’s sheets. A}\}
could send
her to jail

One of the reasons I

want to go over this
afternoon is to

F.
Charles loves me,
\ at any rate

forgotten g
T about them fo~ a,
5 ~ I don't really >: Ya )
pis 1 got sent
7 tag think they'll let Vf, 4
awful again to Mr. Jenks.
= “_
today? He made snide
f a ; about them, but I ;
thought we ’ . temarks about
< / Father
should mention
the possibility

Ne go out there looking mA A

, for thrills. alnwt's, ey \

48
 How? How do I can’t quite But I never say Everything about I really must learn to read, except I'm
explain. You tel] anything. You you tells me That's a afraid it wil] make it awfully hard for
me, that’s all | just seem rd » good word, me in schoo] next year if | already
isn’t it? Mother — know things
looked it up im the
dictionary for me
this morning

- J
about the twins?
if Do you know about
them, too? WV
T think it will
be better if people
You tel} me go on thinking I'm
Teould if I not very bright
sort of inad~
wanted to. If They won't hate me
quite so much

But it’s sort Somebody's here

of tiring, so I just Somebody's hanging
i, concentrate on you around the house
and Mother

You mean
you read our
minds?

50 51
 Calvin
O’Keefe. He’s in
Regional, but
he’s older than

ar ; ie | 4 }

‘ | ¥ : Now =
~ sla)y = a = Nw,: ngs Y us what you're

a <p
- For crying out = 4 ' Pe doing here
a loud, call off your 4

It's all ;
right, fella
f I'm not gong
to hurt you

=. o%,
Aren't you

32 53
 He's a couple of grades above me, p > A change in gene, resulting in
and he’s on the basketbal} team \" p the appearance in the offspring What
I mean hke of a character which is not gives around
in biology present in the parents but here? | was told
which is potentially you couldn’t
transmissible to its talk
offspring. 2
4 this? The third pring
degree? Aren't
you the one who’
supposed to be

And if you want me

to cal] my dog
peculiar moron |
off, you'd better
ever met
explain

Thinkimg I’m a moron Junior. Eleventh

gives people something I'm bnght Listen-did
to fee) smug about, Why anybody ask you to come
should | disillusion here this afternoon?
them?
cs gm
I just came to get They all have runny
away from my noses. I'm third (som
from the le
sceinaaar top @
of mean like in

of family?

54 35
 bares You'reco 4 } And this
chee : afternoon I had a
y 8 feeling that I must come
leant
over to the haunted
explain where it
comes from or how
I get it, and it doesn’t
Maybe
happen very often it's because
but I obey it I'm supposed to
meet you. You
You still
don’t trust me,

I don’t
distrust
you

Okay,
old sport. I'll
te}) you this
much—
, Somehmes
I get a feeling,
a—wel), you I believe you
might call it a I think I'@ hike
\ compulsion to trust you

when I get
this feeling, this better come home
compulsion, i with us and have
always do what
it tells me A
A> AA :

56
57
 Well, Mother's
sure, bul- all mght
She's not
what would one of us,
your mother but she’s al]
say?

She'd
delight ted

>~

Meg has if
A tough. She’ not
\i teally one thing
or the other
i (WSs

Let's take Calvi

to meet Mrs
you mean, one do you mean Whats. If he’s
T'm not one
A» not okay, she'll
thing or the
other?

59
They get a lot of fun out
of using all the typical
TO)

a
 What
ee
Charlane, my ‘7 re coe.
Caught Mrs W’ ho,
in the act do you know
on earth do BS pet! @ 3@3 ratsons But English. Ast
you want “ que la raison ne that’s not Was saying—
them for? comnait point appropriate
at all!
French
Pascal. The
heart has its afternoon, ma'am
reasons, whereof I didn't quite catch
reason knows your name

He wasn't She's busy. It’s

my idea, getting near ime,
Charisie, but Charlsie~getting
I think he’s a neat time. Ab honesto
good one virwm bonum
nihil deterret
Seneca. Nothing
deters a good
I'm not talking But we really man from
about my mother's In case \ didn’t mean you to doing what is
feelings about we noed know about the honorable
my father! I'm ghosts, of sheets
talking about Mrs course
Buncombe’s Auf frischer Tat
sheets. So why ertappt, German

in
flagrante
delicto

And
If we have to he’ a very
frighten good man,
anybody away, Charlsie,
Whatsit "Y darling, but
thought we | right now he
ought to do needs our
it right
 cut ==
Ah, little Charles, I don’t
Megsie! Lovely \ understand. Je
to meet you, % Fort, didn’t
psa

A
sweetheart

, eee ax
win 1) a
mya) ve at
a

Py
w (Yase SX,

es
= _
I i) aA,
father, of Be Aah SSN

No. I don’t
either, yet
Now go home, loves. Get plenty of food and Not quite
The time is not rest. Feed Calvin up.
yet right AY

[7 I've never even

seen your house, and
I have the funmiest
quiver—so you feeling that for the
know it's first time in my life
I'm going home
Now, off (4 Justitiae soror fides
with you! ){Latin again, of course
Faith is the sister of
Look, do me a favor, both of you. Let's
=, . not talk about this til] we've had some-
thing to eat. I need fuel to sort things
out and assimilate them properly

64
 3
Mrs Which

BA
 Ll i@wW
‘Na '\\

bef] most impossible~ ,

SSS
y a ; wwX a L)
tf iy

< Sy <2

They're always suspicious of

chemicals getting into the food,
but I wanted to stay with my |

nS
ia
js ert \
But I don’t fee} confused or
Don’t tell
Sandy and Dennys S
5

I'm cooking out

upset anymore-only happy here.

I mean, I knew who you

Were in school and This 1s
we weren't everything, but I didn’t Calvin O'Keefe,
meant to meet ‘ know you Mother
before this.

enough for him,

too? It smells

69
 Hello, Calvin. Nice to Sounds wonderful
meet you. We're only May 1 use your phone so A mother
having stew tomght, but my mother’l] know 5 Tike that! A
it's a good thick one. A house hke

Zz)
> Your mother's
gorgeous! You \—
should see my =
mother
uA —
Le
She had all her upper teeth out and Pop got Ne mh q
her a plate but she won't wear it, and most
days she doesn't even comb her hair ¥ But
Ilove her. That's the 4
funny part of it. | love them
why I bother calling. W by ED) Not that it makes
all, and they don’t give a
She wouldn’ notice
- much difference
SLi when she does
(A he
‘na
Oy
AY

eS
-

Oh, Hinky. Tell Y D. oO you know

Ma I won't be ho Ww lucky you
S home ti] late are? Maybe that's why I call You don't know

s
hen I'm not going to be how lucky you are
7 And don't S home. Because I care to be loved
? forget’ I don't :
want to be locked jf
“ ‘
) gue
just took it for
y oul again if
=) granted
 Do they care how you

rs
T'll fms’ h this up properly
on the stove do it? I mean, can you
Here work it out your
But it's pretty own way?
Have you done
your homework,
complicated
Sure, as long as
1 understand it and
get the answers
right .

matter of fact I

fal
have some junk
of mine to
finish up

is that every ordinary

Now, look. See fraction can be converted
how much easier it into an imfinite periodic
Then I’m sure
Calvin won't mind if would be if you did decimal fraction
it this way?
you fimish before
Show me once
more on another

I'm ohay on anything to do But, see, I'm a couple

with words, but I don't do grades above Meg
as well with numbers.

75
 This 13 the craziest —but you're supposed to The trouble with Meg I can usually decipher I'm planning on giving
family. I guess I should be dumb in school, and math is that Meg it, but 1 doubt many of her a typewriter for If] get anything
stop being surprised always being called up and her father used to her teachers can, or Christmas. That may night, nobody’ll
play with numbers, and are willing to take yA believe it's me
Meg learned far too the time
A. many shortcuts.
a

square of the
velocity of light
in centimeters
Einstem's per second
So when they want her Are there any more
to do problems the long of Father's equation
morons like Meg and It might also
way around at schoo] nicknames
Charles around? help if Meg's
she gets sullen and for me
handwriting were
stubborn and sets up a
If so,

hee
fine mental block Also 3.26
I should meet
for herself. million light
more of them

77
 Who wrote Boswell'’s
Life of Johnson? But you're good at
countries 1s Peru basketball and things!
You're good in school
Oh, Everybody hhes you
I haven't the Calvin, I'm
faintest idea not any good
I think it’s in at English For all
South America the most
somewhere How did all this happen? ummportant
Isn't it wonderful? I fee] as though reasons
| were just being born!

I'm not alone

anymore! Do you
realize what that

She still enjoys playing

l see what you with her dolls’ house,
mean. Her I wouldn’t darling, I'm
though
want to teach. sorry
There hasn't been
She's a little one anybody 1 could talk to
But I’m sure
sided, I grant you, Sure, I can function on
Calvin knows
though I blame her father the same level as
what I mean.
and myself for tha: 1 « everybody else—I can

n
hold myself down—
as b but it isn’t me

\“Al
=

719
 understands more
than the rest of us,

Do you
And you 3 think things
think all this has always have an
i something to do explanation?

because he's-

well, because he’s

different, Meg

something, it
But I think doesn't mean that
that with our & an explanation | mm ‘ } Wanting doesn’t have
human limitations \ doesn’t exist : 7} ‘ anything to do with it
avs Charles Wallace is

F2 <a
yxe
»

PS andi OM |
wouldn't want
eS him to be

SssAL
 Maybe that's why our visitor
last night didn’t surprise me
Maybe that’s why I'm able to
have a~a willing suspension
of disbelief.

Because
of Charles
Tl just have to => Wallace
accept it without 2 ~—
understanding it Sg
— a

aa ior Nilutlece doeen' 4 — pa 9

allac i g)

to get Rng
byee. straight different
lookanybody rl put oe
else

I'm blessed with more

brains and opportunities Your
than many people, but looks do
there's nothing about me} i
that breaks out of the
ordinary mold
But people are more than Well, 1 know Charles
just the way they look Wallace is different, and
Charles Wallace's T know he's something
difference isn’t physical
It's in essence

84 85
 You just haven't
had enough basis
for comparison,
Meg. I'm very
ordinary, really 4

\, you were going

4 to tell me about
Y the tesseract
>. | if

,
Oh, something my Y
Genesis husband and I were \
His cunice cooking up together Go on that walk with
a y T dont want to be too Calvin. I'm going up to
' far behind him when kiss Charles, and then r
of
Ba you
Way eat were he gets back I have to see that the ,
experiment & twins get to bed
working on this
afternoon, Mrs.

Charles says I'm not

one thing or the other,
not flesh nor fow] nor
good red herring
if
es

= 87
 =
~ Ve. ZI

T don’t think
J was. But she’s

aq]
Hold it, kid. I
didn’t say anything you
hadn't heard already,
?
 Come on, Meg | | -and how anybody after one
You know it look at your mother could Then he
isn’t true, I believe any man would leave &id some
know it isn’t her for another woman just , ; work for the
true~ shows how far jealousy will government,
make people go > didn't he?

You take it : That's about al)

from there. That's I know, too. Maybe
all I know & Mother knows What he d
ri te
more, bu was~well, it was

Your father’s a
Look, dope, I physicist. That's a He's a Ph.D
just want to get fact, yes? several times
things straight-
sort out the fact
from fichon

He was out in New

really. But they moved Mexico for4 a while—-we DZ And then he
lam arte aot were with him there- hd was going to be
then im Florida at traveling more, so
Cape Canaveral, and we came here.
we Were with him
there, too

the time he works

alone but some of the time
he was at the Institute for
Higher Learning in
Princeton. Correct?

90 91
 And you don’t know At first we got lots of Every once in a while
where your father was letters. Mother and the postmistress makes
sent? Father wrote each other some kind of crack
every day, I think about al} her letters
Mother still writes
him every night. 4

I suppose they think she’s pursuing

him or something. They can't Well, go on Nothing
understand plain, ordinary love What happened happened
when they see it That's the
trouble

The letters You haven't

just stopped heard anything
coming at all?

92 93
 No! They'd have told us! There’ always R
Oh, Calvin— : You're
a telegram or something. They That’s
Mother's tned and just crazy
always tel] you! what I'm
tried to find out — your
afraid of.
She’ beer down to ‘father, aren't
Washington and
everything

All they'll
say is he’s on a secret ahead and
and dangerous mission, and ery, It'll do
she can be very proud of him, 4 sh you good
but he won't be able to-to
communicate with us
for a while

lery much
What do /j too much. I mother's a
they tell should be like completely
you? Mother. I different person
should be able and she’s a lot
to control . older than
myself i you are
ion

Mog, don’t
e get mad but
they’! do you think maybe
give us they don’t know?
news as
soon as
they have

“eS
al

VA \ 7|

94 Os
 Do you You Listen, you
go nght on wearing
know this is the know what,
first time I've you've got your glasses
seen you without dreamboat
your glasses? eyes I don't want
terribly sorry anybody else to see
Now you'll I'm what gorgeous eyes
hate me blind as a you have
bat without

you are a moron

Don't you know
you're the nicest thing
that's happened to me
in a Jong time?

96 97
 I wasn’t spying
on you-and I hate to
break things up—but
thas 25 it, kids!

yy }
i
/

I don't know .
exactly Dante. What
'
+ 4 grievous paim a
little fault doth
‘+ , ' give thee!

Reh aie

Where'd Mrs Who

come from?
think it's to
find Father.

thank you!
You're so ) than a young
clever! colt
yg d

98 99
Just because you're
a paltry few billion All
Thiss iss
rrightt,
nno ttime forr
girtiiss.
bbickkerring

4
The Black Thing

I ddo nott thinkk I willl matterrialize

commpletely. 1 ffindd itt verry ‘ ) %
tirinngg andd
wee hhave
mmuch tto

ee

2
7 (

©
 | ry ;
\ © . hf Like the earth, turning
\ ZA ican fee Rotating on its axis—
— Oh
I can feel \ / / : h oa!
—_.
my arms and m, z
legs again > ,

r \ ~ (

« ' K
“ A

a
something
Did it stop?
de it x
 That was
quite a trip.
You might
have warned

_—— ST7
I'm here, Charles! - S Well, just
7 give me time,

108 109
110 Il
 If you ladies have had your
fun | think you should tel} But that’s going
Calvin and Meg a little r to be hard for Meg
more about all this It's going to be hard
for her to realize that
You scared Meg we are serious
half out of her wits,
whisking her off this
way without any

Finxerunt animi,
raro et perpauca i ucut What about
loquentis pines a ‘ of your father f Charles Wallace,
isn't at stake
ssometthingg
.Sey ! Adeadly
Horese fe sseriouss
action little,
NKless to words But she finds
Charles Wallace
\ inclined it so difficult to ¥
knows there's far
more at stake than
the life of his

It helps if
she can quote
instead of
working out
words of her

tto trreatt
itta Vhattile J
Ihgghtly
 iy’ thn so sehow meneoe , Mrs Whatsitt will] expliainn, Shee
y ee ve gotten here’ 1885 yyoungg annd thee Ilanguage of
Persgrit nythng else that's }Even traveling at the y z 2 worrds iss eeasierr fforr hherr thann
J speed of light it itt iss fforr Mrs Whoo andd mee
would take us years é A) -
mand years

We tesser Or you , : = We stopped here more or less to catch

at the speed o' might say, we our breaths. And to give you a chance
anything. to understand what you're up against

He's one of
the reasons

Could that have

anything to do with
Mother's tesseract?

ro) |
114 115
 le can’ "
behead I niot patient!
ten I've
aaa ' never been
if, mt!

od y

ime
Should—should Bs
I change?

Now! Why don’t you You're perfectly safe on

three children wander Unel. That's why we
around and Charles can stopped here to rest
explain things a little

< Me f Pe hope it won't

| « upset the children
¥, ry

116 117
 But what
do we call
you now?

“4 — ,

‘- — Ba
s ez

No. Not to me, a

Calvin. Never .
was Stand up. é|

4 (23

You can’t
go on changing
my name each time
I metamorphose And
I've had such pleasure
being Mrs Whatsit I
think you'd better wy
heep to that ~

120 121
122 123
 It takes a tremendous amount of effort, and
we're going to need every ounce of energy
for what's ahead of us, but I'll try to
translate for Meg and Calvin

< Sing wnto the Lord a new song, and his

praise from the end of the earth

124 125
 g i'll tell you /
how to use = : It's getting
them later = / harder to

children, = as much as you're

use your A used to, but it will
flowers be enough
now

The atmosphere
will continue to get thinner
V’ from now on, Hold the flowers up \
to your face and breathe through them
and they will give you enough oxygen

126 127
 Wharl
have to show
you wil] be far
more visible

Look ahead,
: straight ahead, as
~and wait . C far as you can
for sunset and < ° possibly look
moonset

130 131
 That sort
of thing out
there—what

Make
Is the shadow a it go away, Mrs
Thing in itself? Whatsit, Make it
The atmosphere
is 30 thin here that it go away. It's
does not obseure your evil
vision as it would at
home

Now look. Look

straight ahead )

132
 4 Please forgive
Which~she's too &
tired to materialize
completely again

5
The Tesseract

af That dark
me Thing we
saw—

Is that what
my father is
fighting?
 f Where are
we going?
Wwee
beehindd thee Fi P ae musstt ggo
ddarrkness, sso thatt hi bbehindd thee
evenh Wee cannot! & 2 ri .
seee hhimm R

. ‘| F

Y
But we will
not do it al} at
once We will
do it m short \ EY * ‘
Explanations
stages are nol easy when
they are about things
\ > GZ for which your
\\ws ‘ B civilization stil) has
We are asking you to
do a difficult thing, *
despair. Do you but we are confident -
think we would that you can do it Now we will
have brought you Your father needs tesser—wnnkle—
here if there were help, he needs again Do you
no hope? courage, and for his understand?
children he may be
able to do what he
cannot do for
himself

136 137
Calvin talked about traveling at the You see, ifavery smal] insect were Now, you see, he would
speed of hight. You understand to move from Mrs Who's right hand be there, without that
that, little Meg? to her left, it would be quite a long
impractical, long walk for him if he had to walk
way around, and straight across
we've learned to
take shortcuts
wherever

That's because This is

you think of space something you
only in three can understand,
dimensions. We Meg. Don't be
travel m the afraid to try
fifth dimension

La experiencia es la madre de
la cigncia, Spanish, my
dears. Cervantes.
<3

cs
OD Experience is
the mother of

I guess | am
a moron I just J
don’t get at
 It was a concept they were
Was your mother playing with: going beyond the Well, you'd
able to explain a fourth dimension to the fifth square the line. A flat
tesseract to you? Did your mother explain it square would be in the
to you, Charles? Okay second dimension
And the second
dimension?
never did. She
got so upset
about it

She
said it had
something to do
with her and Then the square wouldn't be flat
Father. anymore. It would have a bottom,
and sides, and a top

Just
What is the first
explain it to
hurt, Meg You ¥ dimension?
were at school, Z| square the second
dimension |
and | just kept at
her till I got it
out of her

I know it's got something to do with

Einstein and time. I guess maybe you
could call the fourth dimension Time.

Well, in
mathematical
terms you'd
square the
square
 ; Well, the fifth dimension’s a tesseract
That's You add that to the other four Sso rmow wee
right. Ohay, a dimensions and you can travel geo. Tthere iss nott
then, for through space without having to all thee ttime inn
the fufth go the long way around
dimension
you'd square
the fourth,
wouldn't J

' —~ vy i Pe
: ee . . V7 YY iv *

In other . 5 : Yy, } ‘ {
words, to put it into : x — =‘Bx4 iV)
Euclid, or old-fashioned = * 7
plane geometry, a straight line
13 not the shortest distance
between two pomts

W/ I'm ay a"
sure how it will
work~though we
trave) together, we
trave] alone

enough to get
the idea

142 143
 VA
I can’t fee] Calvin's hand

Oh, no!
We cant stop
here!
Ee

This is a two-
dimensional
lanet—the
iren cant
manage here!

Like being flattened

by a steamroller

Mrs Which,
you might have
hilled us!

144 145
 It was just a very understandable
mistake, It’s very difficult for Mrs
Cchilldrenn, Which to think in a corporeal way
I appolloggize on

And it’s really a very = <

pleasant little planet, and
rather amusing to be flat
We always enjoy our
visits there
—
Where are we J In Orion’s belt. We
now, then? J have a fnend here, and When are we
we want you to have a going home?
look at your own
planet

4 7 ( \

You know how difficult it is

for her to materialize. If you funny. You didn't
are not substantia) yourself, it’s do it on purpose, Oh, my darling,
very difficult to realize how of course she
limiting protoplasm is didn’t!
Mother must be frantic by now. She We made a nice little time tesser, and
and the twins and Fort will have been unless something goes ternbly wrong
looking and looking for us, and— we'll have you back about five
minutes before you left. Nobody will
hnow you were gone at al]

(i ‘=

146 147
 You'll like her, children. She's very
jolly. If Iever saw her looking
unhappy, ! would be very depressed
myself. As long as she can laugh I'm
sure everything 1s going to come
out right in the end

Jusstt beccause
yyou arre verry youngg
iss nno exxcuse forr tallking
tooo muchh

“ 4
Just how 379,152,497 years,
old are you? 8 months, and 3 days
That as
1 according to
X J your calendar, N
YF a A course, which even
1 YOu know isn’t
H WeN very accurate

It was really a very great honor for me

to be chosen for this mission, It's just
because of my verbalizing and
materializing so well,

But of course
we can't take any
credit for our talents. It's
how we use them
that counts
 Oh, why must you make me look at Therre willl nno llonggerr bee sso
~ WWEE ARRE unpleasant things when there are so manyy pplieasanntt thinggss tto
HHERRE! many delightful ones to see? Nookk att iff rressponssible ppeoplle
ddo nnott ddo ssomethingg abboutt
thee urmppleassanntt oness.

V1 /
(

Look, children
is Look well
AF
<=J)
A +>

Margaret
dear, these are Murry,
Charles
the children se
Wallace
Murry,

Medium, dear,
that's Mars

them to see
their home
\ lanet

[A

152 153
 Is uf because of our
atmosphere thal we Nno, Did it just come
can’t see properly? Mmegg, yyou while we've been
krmoww thatt itt
133 nnott thee
attmosspheeere

Yyou
mmussit bee

No, Meg. It
has been there for a
great many years.

It's the
reason your planet
13 such a troubled

We showed you
the Dark Thing on
Uniel because we thought
it would be easier for you
It's the Dark Thing we to understand if you saw
saw from the mountain it-well, someplace else
peak on Unie) when we first, not your own
were nding on Mrs earth
Whatsit's back!

154 155
 And we're not
Yes, Charles, alone, you know ; *
dear We al) it? We know All through the 7 ~and the greatest 7
. that it's evil, universe it’s being } ‘ galaxy +
fought, all 5
i 7
through the
cosmos, and
my, but its a

exciting

T know it’s hard for you

to understand about size,
Itt iss Eevill how there’s very hitle
Itt iss thee Ppowers of difference in the size of
Ddarrkknesss! the times! microbe—

. Some Who have our

rg of our very it’s a little L fighters been?
Raia
best fighters planet, dears,
Mrs Which tell us
on the edge
out a3ille
‘ to
F what's going right come
have fom ol galaxy s Oh, you
must know
You can be
them, dear
proud it’s done
so well
Wee wwill cconttmnue
tto ffightt!

And the light

shineth in
darkness; and
the darkness
comprehended
tt not

156 157
 Ofcourse! Go on, Charles, love. There \
were others. All your great artists } Wee aarre
They've been lights for us to see by = gRO0ingg tto yourr
ffatherr

But what
about Father?
Please, what
about Father?

Shakespeare,
Leonardo ‘and Bach! Pasteur and
da Vinci? And Madame Curie
Michelangelo? and Einstein!
must prepare
And Schweitzer and to be very
Gandhi and Buddha and strong
Beethoven and Rembrandt
and St. Francis!

158 159
 6
The Happy Medium

160
 That was a star lt won, but it lest Itt wass nnott
A star givig up its iflife in
m theo sso Nongg aggo
its life m battle nmin
winning ffor yyou,
with the Thing ry wwass itt?
Y Dy,
>
q
i,

162 163
 You weren't going to I was going to give
go without saying you some ambrosia or
nectar or at least

What do
we do next?

Where A , How long has it been

is Father? / since we ate those
bow!s of stew?

Thank you, dear, But I should do

When are we
going to him?
but I think we'd “ q something nice for
better be going ‘ you, after showing you
: such horrible things

One thing
al a hime, ra ) ~

love! They don’t need to eat, you know, Not

food, anyway As soon as we get orgamzed I'll
remind them they have to feed us sooner or later
i—

QO =
” Nno. Wwee aare ggoingg tto yourr
Would you ffatherr, Mmegg. Ddo nnott
hike to see your bbee immpatientt
mothers before

—_ H
)(2)
But she
A AP) — 3 could see her
\ mother, couldn't
» é
Sf Wo'll let
" her sleep

166 167
 FT

\\
\

168
 Goodbye,
Medium, dear, and J
many thanks I
daresay we'll see you
ih an eon or two.

are you going

in case | want
to tune in?
dear, don't feel
bad. Look at But please don’t distress
something Camazotz? I yourself on our behalf
cheerful don’t like the
sound of that
You know you
It's all right. Truly it is, don't like looking at
Mrs. Medium, and Of course! It dark planets, and it
we thank you really helped upsets me" when you
aren't happy
But | must know
It made me mad,
what happens to the
and when I'm mad I
children
don’t have room to
be scared

172 173
Nnoww, echilldrenn, yyouu musstt
nott bee frrightennedd att whatt iss
ggoingg tto hhappenn

) sox?
angry, little Meg
You will need all
your anger now

te,Pin
The shadow. I must've
passed through the shadow
=

SZ
\ 6
Through
the Black Thing
e | aim
=
 Tha!
tell you. You will
just have to wait §
unti] the propitious

ihe
S SP

And I can't stay with

you here, love. You §
three will be on
or ask us for help, and
we won't be able to

But if you weren't

afraid to do what
— Calvin, your greatest =a .
strength 1s your ability to Calvin,
Pinescmttin to communicate with for you a hint
all kinds of people So, for you, {| Listen wel}
I will strengthen this gift

For that he was a spirit too delicate

To act their earthly and abhorr'd commands,
Refusing thetr grand hests, they did confine him
By help of their mast potent ministers.
Andin their most unmitigable rage.
Into a cloven pine, within which rift
Imprisoned, he didst pai

Allwissend bin ich nicht; doch viel ist mir

Yes However,
bewisst Goethe. / do not know everything, ;
fs
I think you'll find, socean Wallace,
CharlesFesergies ool Where is still7,many things J understand.
always trying )}} them useful here the resilience of your Mrs Which? be
to get rid of on Camazotz That ts for you,
my faults! Charles. Remember
that you do not know (4
everything

178 179
 But do not use them except as a last resort
Save them for the final moment of peril \ Bbee
sstrongg

te. 3) 4 “i

care of Meg, " ya F

‘ sg a .

Ican take -
care of Meg. I
always have

Charles Wallace, the You must stay with

danger here is Meg and Calvin. You
greatest for you must mot go off on your
awn. Beware of pride
Tto all three of yyou I Biscause af what and arrogance,
ggive mmy ccommandd— Charles, for they
Ggo ddownn inntto tthee you are. Just exactly sin beta yok
ttowwn. Ggo ttogetherr because of what you
Ddo rmott llett tthemm are you will be by far
ssepparale yyou the most vulnerable

180
 Only a
Now 1
foo) is not
think I know
afraid
what you
meant about

I bet if I counted the flowers,

there'd be exactly the same
number of flowers at every house
 - They're
skipping and Yo | em bel
bouncing in i I don’t know . : 3.
rhythm!
Saprggiows - —

ul EP @ Back to the
hall. Back to
Mrs Whatsit
and Mrs Who

How do they
Se
do that? We But they aren't 44
couldn’t do it there, Do you think \
if we tried V they’d come for us if
| we turned back now?

184
 - They're
skipping and Yo | em bel
bouncing in i I don’t know . : 3.
rhythm!
Saprggiows - —

ul EP @ Back to the
hall. Back to
Mrs Whatsit
and Mrs Who

How do they
Se
do that? We But they aren't 44
couldn’t do it there, Do you think \
if we tried V they’d come for us if
| we turned back now?

184
 Mrs Which said for us
to go ito the town The outskirts Go on
anyhow~and | want if you don’t
to know more about want to come
We are this. I have a hunch if with me
an the town, may help us later
aren't we?

Let's return Don't you

it and see what to st want to find Yes. But how can
we help him if we
agente se
riage " don’t know what
But I’m with we're up against?
A
you-let's knock
and see what

188
 They're
all perfectly
trained. We haven't
had an Aberration
for three years.

You T don’t
can't come have to let
you in if you
haven't any—

It isn’t paper time yet,

we've had milk time;
and I've given my
Decency Donations
regularly. All my
papers are in order

The children
in our section
never drop
balls!
 Only route boys are
allowed out now You

192 193
 But then, What are All Camazotz
You've why don’t you
Are you
you quoting
had your entrance examiners? knows our record
know about us? from? That's why we're the
papers processed
The capital city of
and everything?
You must have, if Manual, of Camazotz
you're here course

1S CENTRAL Central
Intelligence is
located here
PLAN
That's why IT
makes IT's home

“Everybody knows our “Our production levels “In addition, we have

city has the best Central are the highest. Our five poets, one musician,
Intelligence Center on factories never close; three artists, and six
the planet.” our machines never sculptors~
stop rolling.” ~all ii
ere is

this Central
Intelligence

CENTRAL
Central. Just
keep going
and you can’t
miss it
 There was something —as though he
funny about the way he weren't really doing
talked, as though~ the talking
= you please tell
me—

196 197
 N
You remember
What are when we met, you
you doing, asked me why I
was there?

And I told you it was

because I had a
compulsion, a feeling I Well, I've got
That must be it!
CENTRAL Central or just had to come to that another feeling
whatever it is particular place at that
particular moment?

I can foel
minds there. I can’t get
at them, but I can feel
them sort of pulsing

If we go ito that
building, we're gomg
into terrible danger
 7
The Man with Red Eyes
 y
We have
We knew we ’
were going to
to stay together
be in danger. Suppose you didn’t
Mrs Whatsit =3 No. Charles is
come out
to go in
and we had
after you?
told us that - (3 y) Yes, and she J night, Cal

Vv
. @ old us it was i) 4
My going to be worse

iISa
You stay here
with Meg, old
sport, and let me
case the jomt

told us to stay
together. She told

She told you not to

go off by yourself. I'm
the oldest and I
should go in first

202 203
 Where do
we go now?
There aren't
any doors

Could you tell us what You present your papers

the procedure is How do to the A machine. You
around here? we see whoever’s ought to know that
im authority?

=
Ya -

‘N

ey
tj

Ke
207
 You put your lam
S papers in the B here to report
slot. Why are you that one of my letters
ashing me these 13 jamming. Until it can
stupid queshons? be properly oiled by an
Do you think I F Grade oiler, there is
don't know the danger of jammed
answers? minds.

But there
isn’t a Goor or
anything

I think I shall have to report you. I'm

fond of children and | don’t hke to get
You'd better not We're strangers them m trouble, but rather than run the
play games here. That's why risk of reprocessing myself,
around here or we don’t know 1 must report you
you'll have to go about things. one spelling
machine on Whal are you
through the
the second Going here
Process machine Please tell us,
again and you sir, who you are grade level
don't want to and what
you do
&

(e3 EV
209
Maybe that's a good
Well, to
idea. Who do you
whom, then. I’m not
report us to?
on the second-grade
level yet
To whom do
T report you

T'm not sure I

want to know
I wish Charles
wouldn’t act so
sure of himself

And | don't want to get sent to IT.

Don't, Charles. I've never been sent to IT and 1
Please don’t! can’t risk having that happen

several reports to
make lately. I shall
have to ask for more
A-21 cards

You may be detained

for a few days, but they
won't be foo hard on
you Just relax and don't
fight and it will all be
easier for you

the isn’t too hard

on you, but I've
been reprocessed

211
to make decisions,
and we can’t make
them if they’re
 Thave
nothing

And you will soon realize

there is no need to fight me

* 7 Sire \|

Jook at his eyes!

He'll hypnotize

/ For why should

Not only is there you wish to ight
P no need, but you will someone who is here only
fh not have the slightest to save you pain and
9 desire to do so trouble?

For you, and for the rest of the happy,

useful people on this planet, am
7 willing to assume al) the pain
and responsibility of thought
and decision \
of course, help~
but there are
other ways. By.

me, I'll kick Oh, will you ’

; you!
4 We'll make our
indeed, my little
own decisions,
De “| = man? thank you!
a Tan uh) —

216 217
 And everywhere that
Mary went the lamb
But of Peter, Peter
Let me show was sure to go!
course. And you. Let us say the pumpkin eater,
our decisions multiplication table had a wife and
will be one, Don’t couldn't heep—
yours and you see how
mine much better,
how much
easier for you ope
that 1s?

Once sevenis 4 Once ten

is ten. Once
eleven 2s eleven
Once twelve is

Fourscore and
seven years ago our fathers
brought forth on this continent a new
nation, conceived im liberty, and dedicated
Once one is one to the proposition that al] men are
created equal!
Once two is two, Once
three ts three
Once four is
Twice four is
four. Once five 1s
eight, Twice five is
five. Once six
ten. Twice nx is
1s six

219
 Splendid!
Splendid! You have
passed your preliminary We're only here
tests with fying because we think
our father’s here

~ YW | |

ZA) 4
ir 3 Yes, your father Didn't you ever have a
i stuff, did you? It's not can I, you father? You don't want
know, young lady,
pw bur will 1?
him for a reason. You
‘want him because he’
your father

Ah,
T hoped not
I most sincerely
hoped not

220
 Ah, but he hasn't been acting very He was working for the government
like a father, lately. Abandoning his He'd never have left us otherwise
wife and his four little children, And we want to see him, please
f gallivanting off on wild adventures
of his own

What
cause have |
reason have given you for
you grven us to distrust?

is mmpatient!
The spoken word is
Patience,
one of the triumphs of
man~and | intend
young lady
to contimue using 1,
particularly with people
i don’t trust

Patience is not one | i

& of my virtues Le

} |)N And by the j

‘way, you don't &
need to vocahize
verbally with
me. I can
understand you
quite as well
as you can =
understand

Lis
222 223
 I’m not sure
May 1-hah— what you are, but you
ask why you~hah~
You aren't what's talking to
us. I'm sorry if I hurt you
1 didn’t think you
) x k= were real

i thought perhaps
you were a robot, because |
you aren't : don’t fee} anything coming
you ae directly from you.

I'm not
sure where it’s
coming from, but it’s
coming through you
z It isn’t you

224 225
 gave us something to : Ah, well
eat! We're all starved y If |feed you, will
If you're going to be you stop mterfering
horrible to us, you with me?
might as well give It's Jucky for you
us dinner first that you amuse me, my
dear, or I shouldn't be
80 easy on you. The
boys | find not nearly <
30 diverting

I could very easily lose patience

with you~and that, young lady,
would not be good for
your father

to see him again, you'd

better cooperate

230 231
 But it 1s only the hitle
boy whose neurological But there’s a
system is complex possibility?
enough. If you tried to
conduct the necessary q
b» neurons, your brains & E r =
would explode \ie5 There's always
X a possibility

7X \ fj \
fy! \

r| :
enough of these
prehminaries. Let's
get on with it

we were doing
unti) your sister :
interfered. Shall §
I think you will
have to grant hun
the nght to make his
own decisions

Charles. Please
Let me do it, or
 This will all taste to you as

7
though you were eating
something phony
sand, but | suggest you force

@7)
about this setup

peraasi
it down, I would rather not
have your decisions come
There's defimtely from the weakness of an

a
something rotten in the empty stomach
state of Camazotz

reas
EAN di

WS Laos a
SSS?
Se
= |
Mmm!
It smells Jike—hke
Meg 2 turkey dinner!
If this isn't real,
it’s the best imitation
you'll ever get

1 iknow, young
> man, and think how much
you're missing!

pany
 I don't think we should WV Wy) Why don't you trust me, Charles? Why
if Y) eat this stuff, but if You see, don’t you trust me enough to come in If Icome in,
mre going to, I'd P'm really just a and find out what i am? can I get out
better, too kind, jolly old again?
gentleman

H. ahahahaha! Go lam peace and utter rest. | am freedom

from all responsibility. To come in to
me is the last difficult decision
you need ever make

Of course~
if you want

(J two can’t~] can get

im through the

Sa tastes
z= hike sand
But i don’t
A think you will
Yes, because want to
you've shut your mind
enhrely to me

236 237
 If I come—not to stay, you
understand—just to find out about
you, will you tell us where
Father is?

Come on, Meg-eat this

delicious food that has

238 239
 The Transparent Column

iN LY
 What we have to do is hold Charles
Where is he? What Wallace tight. He's in there, somewhere,
have you done to him? and we can’t let them take him away

My Gear
child, he is nght there
before you, well and

Help me hold him, Meg. Don’t

lose control of yourself-not now

You're hurting me, a “

Meg! Let go!

But listen, ;
\ y )
NB Meg-we've all He isn’
y an enemy at
»- ts 4 all. He's our

ily 4
Completely
You know
+ BY
m»
‘well and happy tor
the first time in his
that isn’t Charles!
i There's no
You've got him point talking
somehow!

Mh : iain Meg, let go. I'l) explain

understand, everything, but you

"7 -; must let go

Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who, and Mrs Which

have confused us They're our real enemies.
We never should have trusted them

242 243
 A most
primitive way of
pulting if

Let us go and
y stop talking to us
through Charles. We know
Meg,
just listen

You've got to stop fighting and

relax If you'd just relax, you'd On this planet
realize that all our troubles everything is in
are over perfect order
because everyone
has learned to
relax

Give in Thanks. Now,

if you are our frend, will
you tell us who-or what-
you are?
Att
All you have to do, dear sister, is
Jook quietly and steadily into the Taken No. It is not
eyes of our good frend here, and you in is necessary, nor is it
he will take you in as he has right! You That is all you SJ possible, for me to
y ra, taken me know you're need to >4 leave here.
not you— know
you've never J
m your hfe
called me
dear sister you the one
who's going to
take us to Mr
Murry?

246
 Remember Mrs
Whatsit said your gift
was communication?
Well, we've been trying I'm not going to
to fight Charles hurt you, old sport. I’m
physically, and that you're coming
just trying to be friendly around?
isn't any good Let’s make if up, hunh?

Sure. We're
reasonable people,
after al}. Just look at
Can't you try to me for a minute,
communicate wilh Charles
him—to get in
to him?

251
 father? Merely another
misconception. If you
feel you need a father,

252 253
 On Camazotz we are
all happy because
we are all alike different,
f and I'm

Differences
create problems
You know that,
don't you, dear
sister?
pretend that
you aren't
different

I'm different
Yes, you do andI like being
You've seen at different!
home how
true itis

That's the
reason you're
unhappy at school
You're different

I don’t
like being
different
but I don’t
want to
be like
everybody
else, either

254 255
 Why do you think people get
confused and unhappy? Because Come. We're
they all live their own, separate, Washing time, 7
individual hives

Cy
Y
Why do ¢
you think we

lil Camazotz is ONE mind, and that mind

is IT. That's why everybody's so
happy and efficient

possible way é No! I know our

that, on v4 world isn’t perfect,
Camazotz~ is - si Charles, but it's
. better than this!

This isn't the

only alternative—
it can't be!

Nobody suffers here. Maybe if you aren’t

Nobody is ever unhappy sometimes, you
don't know how to be
happy

ra

256 257
 wae
VekoR
wy. me
4,
ef
ioe
Sok] Nth

ae
PEPE
there's a li
That's the trouble w: th
little boy we Ope ration, but it’s
*,

easily t. ken ro of,

cS

saw this
afternoon! \)
—f
a
@

The little
boy who wasn't
bouncing the ball
hike the others

258 259
 VER VERT
<a
ae QAR
ae sh =
 that’s Father’
Father!

—a
The real Charles would
never laugh at me

264 265
 Let me in
to him, The Tempest, Charies,
Charles trapped m the cloven
pine. And I can let
you out

KS
ee,
ean
OF
OG
| really want to
help him, you
must do as I
=e
5)

thou wast a spirit

too delicate

To act her earthy

-T WantsU you amnd and abhorrd
ousunanda
IT will get you

she did confine

thee... infoa
cloven pine—

266 267
I don’t know what to
do, I don't know how
to get im. LU
 TKR ie 3 4 SAP BE —
A oe FL + /
= % '

sa
‘

a, eT A |
a AO RIF AER AL
<™ + Me ail tin: bt)
Wd , dj

7
270
 You'll have
S& 33
exp 24
2%
2% zz
&a?
We can't
leave Charles
They woukin't
like it

280 281
 But they've betrayed us!
They ght us here
broug here tto

282 283
v

(D2)
? ei
 porgie, pudding
and pie! \

I give you
your faults

No, that's
agen no
nursery rhymes just
fall into the rhythm
But
Se) what about~

What about the

Declaration of
Independence?

290
 But that's exactly
what we have on In Camazotz
Camazotz. Complete all are equal
equality Everyone

a
equal, that they are endowe
by thetr crestor with certam
unalienable nights, tha! among
these are hfe, liberty, and the Like and equal
pursutt of happiness! = U are two entirely af
\ -———~ | \ different things! Ip

sis

292 293
294 295
 10
Absolute Zero
 Only-only
ve been turned
stone

At least you got That's the

Her heart is her away from I only reason I
beating so You got us both could keep from
slowly- away~and IT's so being absorbed, too
much more Because No mind has tried to
powerful, and— IT's completely hold out against IT for
Calvin! I can unused to being so many thousands of
hear him! ref: centuries that certain
Even his How we stay centers have become
voice sounds out, sir? How did soft and atrophied
cold. Frozen we manage as long through lack of
as we did? use

But if
But it’s ] } you hadn't
beating She's we have to come when you
alive do is wait did I'm not
sure how much
longer | would
— . have lasted
And Father. He's
there, too. Or}
wherever here

298 299
 Time is different on
You mean we Camazotz, anyhow. Our
Time
rushed into things time, inadequate though
I was heading on Camazotz
too fast on Camazotz, it 1s, at least as straight
for Mars, but seems to be
and Charles Wallace forward
Why were lessering 1s even inverted, turned
rushed in too fast, and
you on more complicated Tt may not in on ifself, I have
that’s why he got
Camazotz at than we had be even fully one no idea whether |
all? expected dimensional, because it ‘was imprisoned in
can't move back and that colurnn for
forth on its kine, only centuries or only
ahead~but at least it's for minutes
consistent im its
direction

Charles
Wallace trusted T think I
too much im his fee} a pulse in her
own strength. He wrist now
thought he could
And, sir,
how was IT deliberately
able to get into IT and:
Charles Wallace But I can't feel
before tt got ou touching
Listen! my wrist
Meg and Her heartbeat
me 2 1s getting
I can't feel my
wrist at all
stronger!

Can't we
About And did
Father's voice do anything,
your project,
doesn't sound so sir? Can't we look you come to

for help? Do we Camazotz alone?

frozen anymore, but on it alone?
have to just go on Or were there
where 1s Charles
waiting? others with
fallace?
you?
Oh, no
We can’t leave There were
Why doesn't
her, Calvin. We mus! half adozen of
he speak? stay together. We us working
must not be afraid on it
to take hme

300 301
 It's frightening
There was no We as well as excihng
Way to try if out with waited a to discover that
rats or monkeys or year for his matter and energy
dogs. And we had no return, for a are the same thing
idea whether it would message that size a4 an
really work or whether
illusion, and that
it would be I wasn’t the time is 4 material
complete bodily Playimg with time first. We drew substance
disintegration and space 13 4 straws, and I
dangerous game Was second

We can
What know this, but 1's
happened was only a far more than we can
to the first understand with our
man? puny little brains
We
don't~look! I think you
Did her But | did blink will be able to
eyelids I'm sure I did comprehend far more
move? And I can hear than I-and Charles
you! Wallace even more
than-

We drew
straws, and I
Was second

We saw Hank go
He vamshed nght
in front of us

302
 CON
AG
4 ’ r L

| , - 2 - ~ 57
a . 4
. 3 :
) Meg, are you Swe 4 F
all right? ” Z ct

pitt 4 ’ I think
4 you're so cold
because we went
S Z
through the Black
Thing-I thought for a [}
moment il was going
to tear you away
from me

tesser very well

1 must have overshot
We're not on Camazotz,
\ but I don't know
for a minute, ; a where we are.
) too. Don't get \
panicky. You'll
be al] nght (|

304 305
 If your father had tried to yank
You Charles away when he tessered
shouldn’! have us, and if IT had kept grabbing Sa
tned to tesser, hold of Charles, it might have
then been too much for him-
I don’t and we'd have lost him
think so. But I forever
know so little about
anything that I
can’t be sure

No, Meg,
we didn’t “just

— Jeave him.”
S

IT was taking us You and 1

were slipping, and if your
i father had gone on trying to
help us, he wouldn’t have
been able to hoki out,
No! And you'd better
take me back to Camazotz
You and Charles Wallace now.
told him to You're supposed to be
ad tesser! able to help!
It was the only
thing to do. At
least it got us off
Camazotz
There
isn't any
question of
did we go
blame!
without Charles
Wallace?

306 307
You don’t even know We don't know where
where we are’ We'll earth is! Or even where
never see Mother or Camazotz is! We're lost
you're feeling
the twins aga! | p out m space!
again. I'tr afraid ut
is going to hurt,

My daughter, i am not a Mrs Whatsit, a

Ars Who, or a Mrs Which Lama
human being, and a fallible one

309
 Tl) never see Charles
Wallace again, or Mother,
or the twins, or=
 They'll eat us! iy
Raq They're making
oe me hurt!

__ ss
7
Everything “A
hurts —

We're, uh-we're
from earth I’m not
sure how we got
here. We've had an
accident

She can’t
move Shes
terribly cold. We
think that's why
she can't move.

312 313
 11
Aunt Beast
 We What are
frighten you going to
do with us?

7 .
t

4<\
‘] LAS

Ls
leBl
~~ I'm sorry, we
mit) communicate better with
| WW the other one

too, are
afraid? ¢

316 317
 I mean, the earth's my Perhaps they aren't used
home, and I'd ratherbe to visitors from other Peat
there than anywhere in froma, a dark
Tell me, what
do you suppose the world~I mean, the planet, are you?
untverse~and I can't
you'd do if three of
wait to get back, but we
us suddenly arrived
make some awful
on your home
planet? bloopers there

Used to it! We've never

had any, as far as

You three are

fighting?

that what we We're-we're

should do shadowed. But we're
fighting the shadow
 lwas a
prisoner on
Camazotz—

y)

fighting. You Js
make it worse
these children =r SB
tescued me

This little girl

My youngest needs prompt and
son, my baby, is child is in special care. The
stil] there, trapped danger. You coldness of the-what is
must trust it you cal] at?
in the dark mind

The Black
WA Thing Yes.

We must take
ths child back
with us.
ifDon't leave
me the way you
left Charles!
Thing burns unless
it is counteracted
properly

So you are
awake, little
 I put you im a fur robe to keep you
warm. You must not exert yourself What 1s this -
You must not even try to feed dark? What is this Your father and Well, it’s
light? We do not the boy, Calvin,
yourself. You must be as an have asked this, too, yt
infant again understand
but we do not
understand what it
means, to s¢e

P /

&
stil, imal

~~

|) Calvin? Have
they gone back
know what things It must
for Charles
be a very
Wallace? look hike, as you
limiting thing,
this seemg

The Black Thing We know

They are eating and what things are
does not relinquish its
resting, and we are trying to
victims willingly learn about each other and see
what is best to help you

Oh, no!
T’s-2t’s the most
wonderful] thing
in the world!

very strange
world yours
must be!
‘~

eg I
324 325
 A meeting 15 im session now to study what
is best to do. We have never before been
able to talk to anyone who has escaped from
a dark planet, so although your father is
blaming himself for everything, we fee! that
he must be quite an extraordmary person
to get out of Camazotz with you at aj) But Father
left him! He's got to
bring him back! He
can't just abandon

Nobody
What are they doing said anything
about Charles Wallace? We about abandoning
don’t know what IT's doing anybody. That is
to him or making him do & not our way

But we know that just because we

T can see that
want something does not mean
you wish your father to go
that we will get it, and we stil] do
rushing back to Camazotz,
not know what to do. And we
and you could probably make
cannot allow you, in your present
hirn do this, and where
state, to do anything that would
would we be?
jeopardize us a))

But the little To go back

boy—ah, my child, through the Black
you must accept Thing, back to
that this will not Camazotz-! don’t
be easy

327
 What
should I cal] you,
please?

for now you

must relax, you
worry about your must be happy,
hittle brother. We would and you must
get well

(\

LY
I've had nothing to eat since
Try not to say any
words for just a moment
Think within your own
It is so Jong Vir that horrible fake turkey
since my own =“a dinner on Camazotz is
small ones were Think of all the
—— -=_
grown and 4 things you call diffe:
gone — hinds of people
aS

ES
——— rt — ff

—/
No, mother is
Special, a one-name;
and a father you
have here

329
 Friend?
reeseon
Teach
Sent

What is
acquaintance?
What a furmy,

Maybe. Yes,
perhaps that

You think of such odd words about

me. Thing, and monster! I really do
not think I am a monster

Have | said something

funny? Isn't Aunt Beast Aunt Beast
all right? as lovely. Please
a sing to me, Aunt

330 331
 er I find it not easy to put Are you
Beast, what things the way your fighting the Black
is this planet mind shapes them,
called? , but... You can call us
= Ixchel,
I guess. We Oh, yes! In
share the same sun as doing that we can
never relax. Of
course, we have

it 1s so difficult to
explain. What can I say
A that will mean anything

Good helps us,

the stars help us,
perhaps what you would
call light helps us, love
helps us. Oh, my child, I
cannot explain!

lovely sleep, LA
my darling Do something you
you feel all just have to know
right? I feel ) , or not know
= wonderful .

332 333
 like me to take you
to your father and
your Calvin?
We look not at
the things which are
what you would cal]
seen, but at the things
which are not seen.

things which are

seen are temporal,
~ A but the things which
are not seen are
eternal

Let us
go, then. They
are waiting for
 Since I made such a mistake in
They tessering away from IT, we feel that i
promised us would not be wise for me to try to
you were all get back to Camazotz, even alone

o
};
a plan to rescue
Charles Wallace

If Imissed the mark again, I could

easily get lost and wander forever
from galaxy to galaxy, and that would
be small help to anyone, least of all
to Charles Wallace.

Meg! You've never

tasted such food in your
life! Come and eat!

Our friends here feel that it was only

Mrs Who's glasses that kept me
within this solar system.

Here they are, Meg—but I'm

afraid the virtue has gone from them

337
 This child
Have you is distraught. Don't
tried to call Mrs judge her harshly. She
was almost taken by
the Black Thing

U But if you Sometimes

haven't thought of we can't know
anything else, it's what spirtua) damage
the only thing to it leaves even when
physical recovery is
complete

people know all ¥

about tessering, but
they can’t do tt onto We've got to ask them for help now
You're just stupid if you think
we don't

don't you care

about Charles
at all?

338
 y

Look at them all, 4 » Don't try to use

judging me ) a words You're just
A

Hasn't it occurred to
Yes. Try,
you that we've been
child
trying to tel} them you have a
about our ladies? shot at it But I do not
What do you think understand this feeling of
we've been doing aj] anger | sense in you. What is it
this time-stuffing about? There is blame going
our faces? on, and guilt. Why?

not telling me about-

whoever they are you
want us to know

340 341
 12
The Foolish and the Weak

®
 do you expect
us to do?

But it’s Charles Wallace! You mean you'll let But we can't do
IT has him, Mrs Charles be caughtby IT anything! You know
> Whatsit! za forever? we can’t! We tried!
Mrs Whatsit, you
have to save him!
b

can do nothing on
Camazots
 Twill WS y
try to take
my child ¢
This x : : away from y
>
Amnd yyou
kknoww tthatt
is not our ~ \ yyou wwill rnott
way J ssucceeedd?

I thought you
would know that
this is not our

I'm sorry not be able to

We cammot ( t reach hire
allow you

Tf you could teach me

enough more about the
necessary tesseract so | could get
I'm sorry, my to see us ‘ back to Camazotz—
glasses are broken,
and I can't see you | almost
very well got him away
before

No, Calvin. Charles

has gone even deeper
 You
know I
A can't!

what are you

going to do? Are Ssilencce,
you just going to echilldd!
throw Charles

annybbodyy
asskk yyou
tto?
All night, I'll go!
know you want
me to go! understand Charlie: Ss,
It can't be bul he understands me. I'm
anyone else the one who's closest to him
Father's been away for so long,
since Charles Wallace was a
baby. They don’t know “
We want nothing each other Calvin's only
from you that you do known Charles for
without grace, or that y y such a little time. If it
you do without had been longer, then
undersianding Lar m® he would have been
the one, but—

But Ido
understand.

@ Father... I'm not angry

Look, I don’t know

what or who you are,
Wwhatt ddo yyou and at this point I don't
unndderrsstanndd? care, I will not allow my
daughter to go alone
into this danger!
 You know what Maybe Why did you bring
the outcome will TT's nght about me along at all? To
probably be! And you! Or maybe take care of Meg!
she’s weak, now, You said so Is she strong
you're in league
weaker than she with IT. J’'m the one yourself! enough to tesser
was before. She was to go ifanybody again? You know
almost killed by the what she has been
Black Thing. } fail through
to understand how
you can even
consider~

If it will help,
takes her, she i could go, too
can manage c and hold her

Don't you see

that you’re making
something that 1s already
hard for Meg even

won't allow it!

I'll put my foot
down! I won't

I was afraid not

1 just wanted you to
know that I would

352
 Mrs—uh You know it's
—Whatsit the only thing to do
And she's
backward! You know they
Are you never send tne
remembering alone if-
that she is
only a child?

resent that!
I'm better than No, Meg-
44) you at math and I don’t blame your
you know ut! father for being angry and
as suspicious and frightened
And | can’t pretend that we
i] are doing anything but
sending you into the
gravest kind of
danger

Oh, not this kind of thing

fatal danger~but I don't Can't she see If we knew ahead of time
believe that what's going what was going to happen,
we'd be~we'd be like the
people on Camazotz, with
Happy Medium no lives of our own,
it doesn't doesn’t believe it, everything planned and
matter done for us
Do you have
the courage to
go alone?
 In your language B You mean you're comparing our
you have a form of There are lives to @ sonnet? A strict form,
poetry called the fourteen lines, 1 but freedom within it?
sonnet believe, all im iambic
pentameter, It's a very
What's that strict rhythm or
got to do with meter, yes? And each line
has to end with a
ngid rhytne
pattern Oh, do not be
stupid, boy! You
know perfectly well
what I'm driving at!

Yes. You're given the form,

but you have to write the
sonnet yourself, What you Please. If I've
say is completely up got to go, I want to
to you gO mow and get if
over with

And if the poet doesn't But within this strict

do it exactly this way, ut form the poet has
isn’t a sonmet, 15 it? complete freedom to
say whatever he wants,
doesn't he?

Sshee iss
rrightt. Itt iss

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 Thank
you al). Very
much. I know
you saved my
hfe

wanted to do
it for you
I wanted you to That’ what
do it all for me, I every parent

wanted everything wants.

to be easy and
simple
So I tried to
pretend it was all
your fault-
T won't let
Because | was
you, Meg lam
scared, and I didn't
want to have to do
anything myself-

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 You are going to do You The Black
Meg the privilege of are a wise 9 Thing-
accepting this danger man, Mr
When Father
tessered me
through it, it
almost got me

Your father is singularly

mexperienced We will not let the
Black Thing get you

Little Megaparsec, don’t be

afraid to be afraid. We will try
to have courage for you. That is
all we can do. Your mother— f Y Vl tell her
myself
Mother was
always shoving me
out into the world
Good girl, Of
She'd want me to do
course you wil)
this. You know she We gave you gifts the last ttme we took you
would, Tell her— sup] to Camazotz. We will not let you go
T can’t get Charles Wallace empty-handed this time
away from IT~
at what we can give
you now is nothing you can
touch with your hands
 I give 4 Never May ]
you my Jove gc oe that the right
Meg fy love prevail

Your father is right. The The foolishness of God is wiser than men, and
virtue is gone from them the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye
see your calling, brethren, how that not many
wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not
many noble, are called, but God hath chosen the
foolish things of the world to confound the wise;
and God hath chosen the weak things of the
world to confound the things which are mighty
And base things of the world, and things which
are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things I ceannnott
which are not, to bring to nought things that are hholidd yyourr
And what I have to give hanndd, chilldd
you this time you must
try to understand not
word by word, but in a
flash, as you understand
the tesseract

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gEIvenn yyou
mmyy geviftt

Yyou hhave ssomethingg iss

ssomethinngg thatt yyourr onlly
ITT hhhass nnott wweapponn

Bbutt
yyou mmusstt
ffinndd ut fforr
yyourrssell{f,
But Mrs Which won't
let it get me!

se
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 22 just time to
put the lights out?

Or did they put them

out bee ause of me?

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I What have I got that [4

J
IT hasn't got?
fr

J
Ae
IT isn't used to
being resisted
I'm going to Charles
Wallace. That's what's
important. That's what
I have to think of.
father said that’s
how he managed,
and how Calvin

Father saved me T have to resist

then, but there's IT by myself. Is
nobody to save that what I have
that IT hasn’t
se I wish I could fee] numb again, the
way | did at first~but Father said it
was all nght for me to be afraid

Vas
No, I'm sure iT
can resist, IT
just isn’t used to
T have to do
it myself. having other
people resist
a Wr 4!

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 And Mrs Who said~I don’t
understand what she said, but
I think it was mean! to make
me not hate being only me,
and me being the way | am And Mrs Whatsit
said to remember
that she loves me

That's what I have

to think about Not
being afraid. Or not
being as smart as IT

Mrs Whatsit loves me. That's

quite something, to be loved
by someone like Mrs Whatsil

Oh, Charles!
That’s not you!

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 What is ut I have got Nonsense I hate you,
that IT hasn't got? You have nothing boy-who-is-not-Charles-Wallace!
that IT doesn’t

Where are you, Charles Wallace?

You have
nothing that IT
hasn't got

We knew
that Mrs
Whatsit would
send you She
is our friend,

As long as | can stay angry

enough IT can’t get me

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 You're lying about
that and you were
lying about Mrs

Hate’s not what IT doesn't

eo! IT knows all
about hate!

Mrs Whatsit
loves me
That's what
she told me—that
she loves me @
 Ihave Mrs Whatsit'’s love,

‘=
ay
{\~,
Ke
j
~ Pas

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 Charles Wallace, you ate my darling
and my dear and the hght of my hfe |
and the treasure of my heart =

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 T love you,
Charles! I love
you!

[yy \ love you,

Charles! I love
you, I Jove you,
l love you

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 hm 6=6You saved
Charles! J

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 I'm very
proud of you,
my daughter

First thing
tomorrow I must
get some new
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