{"id":1176,"date":"2009-06-30T06:58:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T06:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2009-06-30T06:58:04","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T06:58:04","slug":"fairy-stories-awakened-desire-and-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2009\/06\/30\/fairy-stories-awakened-desire-and-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairy stories, awakened desire, and Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here, Tolkien gets to the root of why fairy stories are compelling:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;at no time can I remember that the enjoyment of a story was dependent on belief that such things could happen, or had happened, in \u201creal life.\u201d Fairy-stories were plainly not primarily concerned with possibility, but with desirability. If they awakened desire, satisfying it while often whetting it unbearably, they succeeded.<\/p>\n<p>-J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy-Stories, (Children)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is in line with C.S. Lewis&#8217;s assertion that Joy = desire. These &#8220;true&#8221; mythologies give us a glimpse of something deeper and greater. As revealed at the end of Lewis&#8217;s autobiography, they are signposts to our creator. A good fairy-story is chock-full of these signs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here, Tolkien gets to the root of why fairy stories are compelling: &#8230;at no time can I remember that the enjoyment of a story was dependent on belief that such things could happen, or had happened, in \u201creal life.\u201d Fairy-stories were plainly not primarily concerned with possibility, but with desirability. If they awakened desire, satisfying &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2009\/06\/30\/fairy-stories-awakened-desire-and-joy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fairy stories, awakened desire, and Joy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}