Chesterton
Saturday, 13 May, 2006
This appears on the opening pages of Coraline:
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
(G.K. Chesterton)
Does anyone know where it's from? I've tried Googling but have come up with nothing.
Blinks:
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Thought Balloon is a group blog in which the writers tackle a new theme every week? month? with one-page scripts. This URL is for their Phonogram ones.
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Issues organised by tale.
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Seems like it’s a paraphrase to me: check out this discussion board, referencing this chapter of a work called orthodoxy from chesterton; or possibly this quote "What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon." Tremendous Trifles (1909)
Sounds like something from “Orthodoxy”. There is a chapter called “The Ethics of Elfland”. I thought it was giants rather than dragons though…