In this way ‘the unknown’ is a source of enrichment and deeper understanding. Tonke Dragt's oeuvre is teeming with mirrors, stairs, doors, mountain passes and gates leading to unknown grounds where charms, skills and dreams help both the hero of the story and the reader to discover new dimensions and aspects of ‘the self’. Panta rhei - all things are floating all the time. As an author she is the very expert in both revealing and concealing the many sides of the human being, fascinated as she is by different worlds, times and spaces where nothing is fixed and everything moves, floats and changes all the time. This paradox is as much part of Tonke Dragt as the two sides of a door are inseparable. The opposite - words that disguise what occupies the mind - is equally true. ‘In words one can express one's feelings,’ the shield-bearer Tiuri concludes at the end of Secrets of the Wild Wood (Geheimen van het wilde woud, 1963). Words Are Just as Powerful as Imagination
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