Childhood familiarity with a place makes its real-world existence seem fragile

Evidence

I have an inability to fully believe in the village where I was born, and when I was a child, if I found it on a map, I would stare and stare, squashing the name under my finger: there it is in print, so it must be real. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 193

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 193
• XREF: connects to: A writer may revisit a place because she cannot quite believe it exists. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 193; Small children restructure a parent’s experience of time into an enclosed present — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 100; The uncanny surfaces when foreign scenes trigger repressed childhood imagery. (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• A writer may revisit a place because she cannot quite believe it exists. #corroborates (0.75) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 193
• Encountering another culture can dissolve one’s own sense of meaning #expands (0.72) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 14
• Childhood conviction can collide with adult authority over a factual impossibility #qualifies (0.50) — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 1666