A Wrinkle in Time and Exogeiny

I recently remembered one of my early favorite books in elementary school, called a Wrinkle in Time. But after 20 years, I've forgotten what it was about. I only remembered it's title, two scenes, and that it was a science fiction novel. But I didn't really remember why I enjoyed it. Well, it has space travel, telepathic aliens, and time weirdness. By analyzing what my interests were back then, I can use it to better understand myself today. I often think about the evidence, extent, or traits that my exogeiny could be traced to from back then. Of course, I'd have been interested in these things back then. My interests don't seem to just develop over from nothing, out of nowhere. It's also a given that I had an interest in time, space and infinity even before I read this book, with these topics being central themes.

I looked into the synoposis and the wikipedia page for the characters of the book and it feels like a slap in the face. Between the telepathy, great, ancient evils and big 'brains' that possesses within a collective hivemind., it's actually very similar to my source. I can make very direct comparisons between IT, and the overmind, and the 'black thing' and Amon. The man with red eyes particularly scares me because like it was in Starcraft, was a vector of possession, sickness and madness. A pawn to be controlled by a greater, more universal evil, as it also was with IT. Of course, a book I liked would have themes related to my modern-day current alterhumanity and fears. Silly me.

Some more information about the other characters and its themes are beyond the cut. I also go a bit into religion and race.

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