Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's pervasive and powerful. See; just like magic.
Jo WaltonI donโt think I am like other people. I mean on some deep fundamental level. Itโs not just being half a twin and reading a lot and seeing fairies. Itโs not just being outside when theyโre all inside. I used to be inside. I think thereโs a way I stand aside and look backwards at things when theyโre happening which isnโt normal.
Jo WaltonIt doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.
Jo WaltonYou know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but it's real and it affects how people behave and makes things happen.
Jo WaltonI sat on the bench by the willows and at my honey bun and read Triton. There are some awful things in the world, itโs true, but there are also some great books. When I grow up I would like to write something that someone could read sitting on a bench on a day that isnโt all that warm and they could sit reading it and totally forget where they were or what time it was so that they were more inside the book than inside their own head. Iโd like to write like Delany or Heinlein or Le Guin.
Jo Walton