“There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.”
Source: Manifestoes of Surrealism
“And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death. Fairy-stories provide many examples and modes of this … Fairy-stories are made by men not by fairies. The Human-stories of the elves are doubtless full of the Escape from Deathlessness.”
On Fairy-Stories (1939)
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