But if so, they will be of that class of people whose desire to believe in fairies is so strong, so rooted in psychological need or shaping by (for example) inculcations in childhood, that they cannot bring themselves, or allow themselves, to think rationally (proportionally, fitting grounds to hypothesis) about their conviction.
Fairies are so due a reboot.
This update of the durable fairy tale is so strategically aimed at the jailbait set (and their older sisters) that it should come with a complimentary tub of Justin Bieber's favorite zit zapper.
He is like the man in the fairy tale whose sight is so powerful that he must bind his eyes with a blindfold lest he see too unbearably much: every droplet on every leaf, every particle of foam in every sea, every wound in every heart; only Joseph Skizzen's eyes are unbound, and every drop is shed blood.
"I've made suites out of the music from King Arthur and The Fairy Queen, and because the music is so wonderful they are satisfying.
Yet, as a go-between, he also enjoyed his flights into fairy tale and whimsy: "There is so much death, and that is why affection / for pig-tails, bright-coloured skirts in the wind, / for paper boats no more durable than we are".
The fairy-tale Eden he imagines is so artificial that it looks less like a natural-history diorama than a department-store window display, complete with prim, pretty little mannequins dressed in their Sunday best.
Created by the National Theatre of London as a work of art and unbridled imagination, the play is based on an obscure fairy tale about a princess who is so "light with grief" after her mother dies that she has no gravity.
Even though they had an inkling there wasn't really a Tooth Fairy, they were so excited when she remembered to leave a dollar or two (more if the tooth was pulled by the dentist) under their pillow.
This theme is taken up at greater length in his essay "On Fairy-Stories", where he argues that fairy-stories are so apt because they are consistent both within themselves and with some truths about reality.
