Fantasy Allows You To Get Past Defenses.

But In Fantasy, You Can Make A Complete Break, And You Can Put People In A Situation Where They Are Confronted With Things That They Would Not Confront In The Real World.

Normal' Is A Dryer Setting.

There Are Relatively Few Science Fiction Or Fantasy Books With The Main Character Being An Old Person.

Even If A Tamed Wolf Makes A Good Sheepdog, He Will Never Understand How The Sheep Feel....you Are Most Fortunate. For Having Been, As You Thought, A Coward, And Helpless To Fight - You Know What That Is Like. You Know What Bitterness That Feeling Breeds - You Know In Your Own Heart What Kind Of Evil It Brings. And So You Are Most Fit To Fight It Where It Occurs.

There Is Simple Ignorance, Not Knowing, And Willful Ignorance That Refuses To Know, That Covers The Light Of Knowledge With The Dark Blanket Of Bias.