{"id":490,"date":"2008-01-05T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T20:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/01\/05\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-74\/"},"modified":"2008-01-05T20:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T20:58:00","slug":"science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/01\/05\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-74\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Fiction Author Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>One thing that puzzles me (and I use <em>puzzle<\/em> here in the technical sense of <em>really, really irritates me<\/em>) is reading, as from time to time I have, learned academic books on folktales and fairy stories that explain why nobody wrote them and which go on to point out that looking for authorship of folktales is in itself a fallacy; the kind of books or articles that give the impression that all stories were stumbled upon, or, at best, reshaped, and I think, Yes, but they all started <em>somewhere<\/em>, in someone&#8217;s head.  Because stories start in minds&#8211;they aren&#8217;t artifacts or natural phenomena.<\/p>\n<p>One scholarly book I read explained that any fairy story in which a character falls asleep obviously began life as a dream that was recounted on waking by a primative type unable to tell dreams from reality, and this was the starting point for our fairy stories&#8211;a theory which seemed filled with holes from the get go, because stories, the kind that survive and are retold, have narrative logic, not dream logic.<\/p>\n<p>Stories are made up by people who make them up.  If they work, they get retold.  There&#8217;s the magic of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Neil Gaiman, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fragile-Things-Short-Fictions-Wonders\/dp\/0061252026\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1199567168&#038;sr=8-1\"><em>Fragile Things<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that puzzles me (and I use puzzle here in the technical sense of really, really irritates me) is reading, as from time to time I have, learned academic books on folktales and fairy stories that explain why nobody &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/01\/05\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-74\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}