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In the fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When I know your name, I can call your name, and when I call your name, you'll come to me.
Our babies cried when we left them and we cry when they leave us. Echoes. Proud almost to arrogance then, we pushed them about in their carriages. Dutifully, wearily now, they push us about in our chairs.
Our children don't know us as we are now. Less do they know us as we were. Oh, how I wish they could have known us as we were. Do rou think they would recognize their young selves in our young selves? I wish they could have seen us in all our clumsiness and selfishness, which is so like their own clumsiness and selfishness right now. There's another echo for you.
We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling about it. We were children loving our children. And that's who we are still.
If you want your children to be brilliant, read them fairly tales.
If you want them to be geniuses, read them more fairy tales.
Don't you think that today it is in this sort of popular literature that you find strong archetypes, symbolic images which have vanished somehow from the more highbrow literary works ?
Stanley Kubrick replied - Yes, I do .... I believe fantasy stories at their best serve the same function for us that fairy tales and mythology formerly did. The current popularity of fantasy, particularly in films, suggests that popular culture, at least, isn't getting what it wants from realism.
" September 26 [1964]. Stanley gave me Joseph Campbell's analysis of the myth - The Hero with a Thousand Faces - to study - very stimulating "
Authur C. Clarke
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