![]() ![]() One of Gaiman’s techniques here comes not from showing us the point of the story via the world building, but rather via said world building’s deconstruction, putting the story’s soul in the violation of the initially established principles, the process of exposing a loophole or intricacy that we didn’t first grasp. This is surely not the first time that Gaiman’s tackled the theme – in fact, it’s no secret that almost all of his works boil down to “normal bloke discovers magical world” – but the number of different ways that the same general idea can be reached from is simply staggering. These stories are wildly disparate, ranging from the bleak to the jubilant, and the majority of these stories function by throwing the narrator into contact with some other world, be it a literal one or the simple breath of wonder into an otherwise ordinary life. XIX, the Mapmaker)įragile Things is Neil Gaiman’s second collection and my first experience with his short fiction. The tale is the map which is the territory. ![]() The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. One describes a tale best by telling the tale. ![]()
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