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Between fairy tales and everyday life. Take, “Jack and
“Whenever fairy tales and their simplistic worldviews the Beanstalk”. If you were to read it, then you can see
crop up in connection with our complicated and how easy and simple of a story it is. There’s no back
morally ambiguous world, you can almost certainly plot or ulterior motives. It’s just a story, unlike everyday
plan on irony.” life.
Chapter 9; Page 66 This quote talks about Daedulus and Icarus and
How Icarus betrayed his father’s wishes against him
“In it we see so much: the parental attempt to save to trying to fly and in his youthful blindness, dies from it.
the child and the grief at having failed, the cure that That story isn’t the only place that this quote rings true.
proves as deadly as the ailment, the youthful You also see it in life; the child rebelling against their
exuberance that leads to selfdestruction, the clash parents and authority. I liked it because you can see this
between sober, adult wisdom and adolescent quote in life.
recklessness, and of course the terror involved in that
headlong descent into the sea.”
Chapter 10; Page 77
“Rain can bring the world back to life, to new
growth, to the return of the green world.”
Chapter 11; Page 88
“Violence is one of the most personal and even
intimate act between human beings, but it can also
be cultural and societal in its implications.”
Chapter 12; Page 98
“Revolutions inevitable fail, [George Orwell] tells
us, because those who come to power are
corrupted by it and reject the values and principles
they initially embraced.”
Chapter 13; Page 111
“Their avantgardism merely constitutes another
kind of conventionality for him, a way of being
“chic” or “in”, whereas his heroic ideal goes its
solitary way even though it outrage friend as well
as foe and confound lover as well as stranger.”
Chapter 14; Page 120
“You may not subscribe to this list, may find it too
glib, but if you want to read like a literature
professor, you need to put aside your belief
system, at least for the period during which you
read, so you can see what the writer is trying to
say.”