Write in your heroes; hold onto your myths.
Why imagination matters and how G.K. Chesterton claimed that conviction in my heart (with help from C.S. Lewis and J.R.R Tolkein).
“In the fairy tale,” G.K. Chesterton writes, “an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened, and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten, and cities perish. A lamp is lit, and love flies away. A flower is plucked, and human lives are forfeited. An apple is eaten, and the hope of God is gone.”1
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