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| Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren't real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin "Why are Americans Afraid of Dragons?"
Ethics flourishes in the timeless soil of Fantasy, where ideologies wither on the vine. ~ Ursrula K. Le Guin "European SF�" Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. ~ Jessamyn West "To See The Dream" It's unsettling. For all our delight in the impermanent, the entrancing flicker of electronics, we also long for the unalterable. We cherish the old stories for their changelessness. Arthur dreams eternally in Avalon. Bilbo can go "there and back again," and "there" is always the beloved familiar Shire. Don Quixote sets out forever to kill a windmill...So people turn to the realms of fantasy for stability, ancient truths, immutable simplicities. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin "Tales from Earthsea" things change: authors and wizards are not always to be trusted: nobody can explain a dragon ~ Ursula K. Le Guin "Tales from Earthsea" Those who refuse to listen to dragons are probably doomed to spend their lives acting out the nightmares of politicians. We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark; and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin "The Language of the Night" Understand: a unicorn is not an innocence metaphor. It is the creature for which innocence is a metaphor. ~ Brandon Alspaugh "Fabulous Monsters" |
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