The soul is sane "but the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world is dull and full of routine, but that the soul is sick and screaming.... In the fairy tales the cosmos goes mad; but the hero does not go mad. In the modern novels the hero is mad before the book begins, and suffers from the harsh steadiness and cruel sanity of the cosmos."
G. K. Chesterton essay, quoted in Only Connect, p.155
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