Quote #493 "...[T]he Lesson [comic Books] Taught Children- Or This Child

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"...[T]he lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate-
was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the
greatest and most heroic of values; that those who were unlike the crowd
were to be treasured the most lovingly; and that this exceptionality was a
treasure so great that it had to be concealed, in ordinary life, beneath
what the comic books called a 'secret identity'."

-- Salman Rushdie

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