(Continued from yesterday evening)
Madeleine L'Engle in The Irrational Season
(1977), Chapter 9:
"After A Wrinkle in Time was finally published,
it was pointed out to me that the villain, a naked
disembodied brain, was called 'It' because It
stands for Intellectual truth as opposed to a truth
which involves the whole of us, heart as well as
mind. That acronym had never occurred to me.
I chose the name It intuitively, because an IT
does not have a heart or soul. And I did not
understand consciously at the time of writing
that the intellect, when it is not informed by
the heart, is evil."
Related material: Mathematics as a Post-Communist Activity.