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Time Enough for Love · 1973
Delusions are often functional. A mother’s opinions about her children’s beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseum, keep her from drowning them at birth.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
A blunt, darkly comic argument that comfortable illusions can serve a purpose. It says a parent's inflated pride in her children keeps her devoted, and jokes with grim exaggeration about what she might do without it. It presents delusion as useful glue, not just error.
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