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A Fairy tale (n.) can be a dream that was not rightly understood, recast so as to make sense and put to extraneous uses.
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A Fairy tale (n.) earns a look of disdain from the matter-of-fact child once he hears it is not true — and people may soon treat the fairy tales of religion the same way.
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The Fairy tale (n.) that begins "once upon a time there were a King and Queen" means only that there were once a father and a mother.
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The Fairy tale (n.) is full of wish-fulfilments and living objects yet never uncanny, because it frankly adopts the animistic standpoint from the start.
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A Fairy tale (n.) can stand in for a person's own childhood: favourite tales become screen memories and turn up in dreams.
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