Child's Play

[The Window of my Atelier- 1969 - Josef Sudek]

Children use that word hate to mean various things. It may mean that they are frightened. Not that they feel in danger of being attacked--the way I did, for instance, by certain big boys on bycycles who like to cut in front of you, yelling fearsomely, as you walked on the sidewalk. It is not physical harm that is feared--or that I feared in Verna's case--so much as some spell, or dark intention. It is a feeling you can have when you are very young even about certain house faces, or tree trunks, or very much about modly cellars or deep closets

-Alice Munro