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“It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.”
- Source
- Five Children and It
- Date
- 1902
Meaning of “It is wonderful how quickly you get used…”
Nesbit’s narrator humorously observes how quickly the children normalize the impossible once a magical creature becomes part of their ordinary conversation.
Where does it come from?
Five Children and It, Chapter I, “Beautiful as the Day,” Project Gutenberg #17314. The narrator observes how quickly the children become accustomed to the astonishing after they begin conversing with the Psammead. This is playful children’s-fantasy narration rather than an empirical psychological claim about adaptation.