By Eric S. Rabkin
Because the first foreign anthology to hide the complete scope of wonderful narrative, awesome Worlds provides over fifty stories, myths, and tales, starting from Genesis to Ovid, Hans Christian Andersen to J.R.R. Tolkien, Edgar Allan Poe to James Thurber, and Franz Kafka to Italo Calvino. together with stories of fairies and elves, ghost tales, excessive myth, and tales of social feedback and the clash among technological know-how and faith, this quantity offers a various choice of writings that every one proportion an identical ability to free up the human spirit during the wild psychological acrobatics of myth.
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An analogy might be helpful here: the socalled wolf whistle used to express physical appreciation has a special tone and interval and duration in our culture. No one knows the source of the wolf whistle. Similarly, no one knows the origin of the tunes of some children's chants (like the taunting one that goes "Nya nya, na, nya nya"), yet we all recognize the meanings of those chants, meanings that, for all we know, The Sources of the Fantastic 29 belong to prehistory. But in more sophisticated times, we find folk songs, corporate productions that may be thought of as important (think of certain work songs, for example, or songs of lost love) but are sung ostensibly for their entertainment value rather than their historical verity; folk songs are canonical, but, unlike myths, they are not sacred.
To be sure, other things being equal, we allow our personal and cultural sense of the real world to supply ground rules, but other things are never completely equal. We may usually presume that the dead do not rise again (so that ghosts must be fantastic), but, as we have seen, we presume in certain contexts that dragons or wizards may be more or less expectable. Since context is continuously created by the process of reading itself, once we know that we are in a ghost story the later occurrence of a ghost will not be particularly fantastic.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. 6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven.