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For fantasy is true, of course. It isn’t factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced into living. They are afraid of dragons, because they are afraid of freedom.
So I believe that we should trust our children. Normal children do not confuse reality and fantasy - they confuse them much less often than we adults do (as a certain great fantasist pointed out in a story called “The Emperor’s New Clothes”). Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books. All too often, that’s more than Mummy and Daddy know; for, in denying their childhood, the adults have denied half their knowledge, and are left with the sad, sterile little fact: “Unicorns aren’t real.” And that fact is one that never got anybody anywhere… It is by such statements as, “Once upon a time there was a dragon,” or “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit” - it is by such beautiful non-facts that we fantastic human beings may arrive, in our peculiar fashion, at the truth.
—"Why are Americans Afraid of Dragons?", The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
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Meanwhile, we're pleased to announce a new installment in our audio companion to the unicorn field guide.
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It's finally time to announce the winner of music's most exceptional unicorn-related song lyric.
The Oddfellow Award for Extraordinary Unicorn Libretti goes to the German electro band Solitary Experiments, whose song " Déjà Vu" contains this remarkable line:
Ride on the unicorn
Until the end of time
Critics will say that anyone can add "until the end of time" to maximize an impact, but while anyone could, only Solitary Experiments did.
May we all ride on the unicorn until the end of time. The Oddfellow Award for Extraordinary Unicorn Libretti couldn't have found a happier home.
Having said that, no unicorn or unicorn award can ever be permanently set in stone. If, in the unlikely event, a future song somehow eclipses the extraordinariness of Solitary Experiments' lyric, The Oddfellow Award for Extraordinary Unicorn Libretti will migrate, as it were, to a new home. We don't foresee that, but should such a day ever come, we're confident that Solitary Experiments will relinquish their award in the spirit of good and sprightly "sportingliness."
Our analysis of Solitary Experiments' auric unicorn horn is thankful for a photo by Danny Sotzny.
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Q: Do you have to visit Last Vegas to use this book?
A: No. Vegas is a state of mind.
Q: Why should what happens in Vegas either stay in Vegas or be recorded in this secret diary?
A: You are entitled to have the curtains drawn, as it were, on anything that you do or otherwise experience in Vegas or within the boundaries of a Vegas state of mind. You are entitled to privacy, even in moral bankruptcy.
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