Childhood conviction can collide with adult authority over a factual impossibility
Evidence
I didn’t find it at all surprising that he was on a poster in my father’s office, I was four years old and nothing in the world was incomprehensible, everything was connected with everything else. But dad and Ola Jan laughed. They laughed, and said it was impossible. That’s Ibsen, they said. He died nearly a hundred years ago. But I was sure it was the same man, and I said so. They shook their heads, and now dad wasn’t laughing. When I pointed to Ibsen and said I had seen him, he shooed me out. — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 1666
Categorization
- XREF: The child assuming all things connect echoes Knausgaard’s epistemology in My Struggle and the earlier claim about meaning-draining grief. — connects to: Reconstructing a childhood crime from adult memory is an untranslatable problem — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 498; Children spontaneously articulate the logical incoherence of legalized adult violence against them — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 10953; Adult childhood memory is an unreliable substitute for asking children directly. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 8290 (+7 more)
Related
- Adult childhood memory is an unreliable substitute for asking children directly. (similarity 0.79)
- Reconstructing a childhood crime from adult memory is an untranslatable problem (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Reconstructing a childhood crime from adult memory is an untranslatable problem
#expands(0.70) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 498 - Children spontaneously articulate the logical incoherence of legalized adult violence against them
#complicates(0.60) — , The Rod and the Child, 10953 - Adult childhood memory is an unreliable substitute for asking children directly.
#corroborates(0.55) — , The Rod and the Child, 8290