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En anglais : "Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. God speaks, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith."
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Si les histoires sont les seuls bateaux qui nous permettent de naviguer sur le fleuve du temps, aucune embarcation n'est entièrement sûre dans les grands rapides et les hauts-fonds.
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En anglais : "Story is our only boat for sailing on the river of time, but in the great rapids and the winding shallows no boat is safe." A Fisherman of the Inland Sea
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Les grandes histoires fantastiques, les mythes, les contes de fées ressemblent vraiment aux rêves : ils parlent de l'inconscient à l'inconscient, ils s'expriment dans la langue de l'inconscient - par symboles et archétypes.
Le langage de la nuit : Essais sur la science-fiction et la fantasy
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En anglais : "The great fantasies, myths and tales are indeed like dreams: they speak from the unconscious to the unconscious, in the language of the unconscious – symbol and archetype. Though they use words, they work the way music does: they short-circuit verbal reasoning, and go straight to the thoughts that lie too deep to utter. They cannot be translated fully into the language of reason, but only a Logical Positivist, who also finds Beethoven's Ninth Symphony meaningless, would claim that they are therefore meaningless. They are profoundly meaningful, and usable – practical – in terms of ethics; of insight; of growth… It also seems to me that most of the great works of fantasy are about that journey [to self-knowledge]; and that fantasy is the medium best suited to a description of that journey, its perils and rewards. The events of a voyage into the unconscious are not describable in the language of rational daily life: only the symbolic language of the deeper psyche will fit them without trivializing them." The Language of the Night
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