Fantasy in Modern Life
QuailBellMagazine.com
Once upon a time, there was a young man who lived in a busy village by the sea.
“Fairy tale time” was over; he was quite sure of it. Postmodern technology seemed to have wiped that sense of wonder clean from the public imagination.
One day, he walked to work. Buildings crept into his line of sight. Marvels of architecture that perhaps grew from tiny industrial seeds into towers of metal and granite.
Landscapes, too, appeared to him as they never had before; meadows, trees, and gardens not simply existing but also alluding to the Edens of myth.
Even after returning home, everyday objects reminded him of the fantastical.