Jose Ovalle's Reviews > On Fairy-Stories

Good! Very reflective of some of Chesterton’s stuff on wonder that he wrote about in orthodoxy 40 years earlier (other than that there’s more detail and depth) so there’s not anything like mind blowing. However, it’s something we need to hear again. We need to fall into wonder again.

“But the true road of escape from such weariness is not to be found in the wilfully awkward, clumsy, or misshapen, not in making all things dark or unremittingly violent; nor in the mixing of colours on through subtlety to drabness, and the fantastical complication of shapes to the point of silliness and on towards delirium. Before we reach such states we need recovery. We should look at green again, and be startled anew (but not blinded) by blue and yellow and red. We should meet the centaur and the dragon, and then perhaps suddenly behold, like the ancient shepherds, sheep, and dogs, and horses— and wolves.”