A/
p. 109 éd. 1997 :
"In that realm a man may, perhaps, count himself fortunate to have wandered, but its very richness and strangeness tie the tongue of a traveller who would report them. And while he is there it is dangerous for him to ask too many questions, lest the gates should be shut and the keys be lost."
B/
p. 116 éd. 1997 :
"The magic of Faerie is not an end in itself, its virtue is in its operations: among these are the satisfaction of certain primordial human desires. One of these desires is to survey the depths of space and time. Another is (as will be seen) to hold communion with other living things. "
C/
p. 143
"To the elvish craft, Enchantment, Fantasy aspires, and when it is successful of all forms of human art most nearly approaches. At the heart of many man-made stories of the elves lies, open or concealed, pure or alloyed, the desire for a living, realised sub-creative art, which (however much it may outwardly resemble it) is inwardly wholly different from the greed for self-centred power which is the mark of the mere Magician. Of this desire the elves, in their better (but still perilous) part, are largely made; and it is from them that we may learn what is the central desire and aspiration of human Fantasy - even if the elves are, all the more in so far as they are, only a product of Fantasy itself."
D/
p. 144
le poème sur la lumière réfractée
E/
pp. 145 - 157
Chapitre Recovery, Escape et Consolation
F/
p. 153 :
"At least I would say that Tragedy is the true form of Drama, its highest function; but the opposite is true of Fairy-story. Since we do not appear to possess a word that expresses this opposite - I will call it Eucatastrophe. The eucatastrophic tale is the true form of fairy-tale, and its highest function."
G/
p. 160 - 161
Note H sur la fin des contes de fées
Pffiou... J'aurais mieux fait de trouver une table de correspondances sur Internet... mais ça ne doit pas encore exister ! Si tu ne peux plus rien pour moi, Éric, je comprendrai... dans le cas contraire, sois béni à tout jamais !
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