tag:dreamwidth.org,2016-12-25:2614584 timelets timelets 2025-06-28T20:14:13Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2016-12-25:2614584:1636775 2025-06-28T20:14:13Z 2025-06-28T20:14:13Z public 0 “..if change is inevitable, so too is recurrence. ”<br /><br />--- Abbott, H. Porter. “The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative (Cambridge Introductions to Literature).”<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=timelets&ditemid=1636775" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2016-12-25:2614584:1611211 2024-12-12T03:21:39Z 2024-12-12T03:21:39Z public 0 “Folktales are real (le fiabe sono vere)” [Calvino]<br /><br />The structures of wonder and magic open ways of recording experience while imagining a time when suffering will be over. Fate will be changed; perpetrators overcome. The wishful thinking and the happy ending are rooted in sheer misery.<br /><br /><br />Unlike myths, which are about gods and superheroes, fairytale protagonists are recognizably ordinary working people, toiling at ordinary occupations over a long period of history, before industrialization and mass literacy.<br /><br />-- Warner, Marina;. “Once upon a Time.”<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=timelets&ditemid=1611211" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2016-12-25:2614584:1514864 2023-02-04T00:25:17Z 2023-02-04T00:25:17Z public 0 <blockquote>...it is magic of a peculiar mood and power, at the furthest pole from the<br />vulgar devices of the laborious, scientific, magician. There is one proviso : if there is any satire<br />present in the tale, one thing must not be made fun of, the magic itself. That must in that story be<br />taken seriously, neither laughed at nor explained away. <br /><br />--- J.R.R.
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Stories<br /><a href="http://ieas-szeged.hu/downtherabbithole/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Tolkien-On-Fairy-Stories.pdf">http://ieas-szeged.hu/downtherabbithole/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Tolkien-On-Fairy-Stories.pdf</a><br /></blockquote><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=timelets&ditemid=1514864" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2016-12-25:2614584:1481598 2022-09-13T17:50:13Z 2022-09-13T17:50:13Z public 0 <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://timelets.dreamwidth.org/1481598.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br />"you don't need time to understand change."<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=timelets&ditemid=1481598" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments