Feared Legacy, Legacy of Fear

“It is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.”

-Maurice Sendak

I love fantasy. I love epics (which, as much some stuffy Classics majors might fight it, are fantasy). Sure, dragons are awesome and who wouldn’t want to be a waterbender or get their Hogwarts letter or smoke some pipeweed after a long day’s work tilling Shire earth? But that’s not why I love fantasy.