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But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding ...more

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...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obv...more

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The universe, they say, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty, and bloody-m...more

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The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdo...more

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To animals they were just the weather, just part of everything. But humans arose and gave them names, just as people filled the starry sky with heroes...more

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Stories don't care who takes part in them. All that matters if that the story gets told, that the story repeats. Or, if you prefer to think of it like...more

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People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.

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Find the story, Granny Weatherwax always said. She believed that the world was full of story shapes. If you let them, they controlled you. But if you ...more

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What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?

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Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

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Supposing an emperor was persuaded to wear a new suit of clothes whose material was so fine that, to the common eye, the clothes weren't there. And su...more