Showing posts with label Armando Maggi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Armando Maggi. Show all posts
still on fairytales
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"Fairytales move like dreams from image to image, rather than rationally from event to event. And, like dreams, they resist explanation. A fairytale is resistant to any single simplified meaning. The multi-layered quality of a fairytale is something that many scolars acknowledge in theory, but deny in practice. Especially when they deal with oral fairytales."
Neil Philip, in Creativity and Tradition in The Fairytale
"A new mythology. We must be able to dream. We must try to find a new magic. That is what an 'oral' [versus literary] tale means to me. It is what, by subtracting meaning, leads us to dream about what is missing. We do not dream anymore when we watch these Walt Disney Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella."
Armando Maggi
‘We must be able to dream’
"We cannot live without mythology, it’s the way we reason, the
way we survive, the way we make sense of our world. It’s just that the
stories we’ve been using—mythic stories, fairy tales, legends—they’re
not working anymore. We need something new. What we long for is a
remythologization of reality.”
Armando Maggi, aqui
