“To search out the dragon in his true greatness is to learn strange things.”
[University Lectures Delivered by Members of the Faculty in the Free Public Lecture Course, 7, 105-106, https://books.google.com/books?id=iW7NAAAAMAAJ, 1920, University of Pennsylvania]
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Often misattributed to but inspired by GK Chesterton:
Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.
Coraline (2002)
“Rhage! You have a dragon! A pet dragon! I got to rub his tummy!”
Source: The Beast
just as if he had got into Fairyland, of which he knew quite as much as anybody; for his mother had no money to buy books to set him wrong on the subject.
At the Back of the North Wind (1871)
“When the wine goes in, strange things come out.”
Act II, sc. v
Wallenstein (1798), Part I - Die Piccolomini (The Piccolomini)
