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Changing Places

Skyhook and Crane examples from our Thursday small group, Vampires and Rabies – Glass Slippers and Stilettos (high-heeled shoes Prof. Grobstein), led me to think about the early days when my daughter seriously believed there were monsters in her bedroom. Because I could not convince her that they were fantasy figures from her mind, I chased them away every night and protected her by spreading potpourri in every corner of her room and just a pinch under the bed for good measure. About a year or so later she declared that I had chased them away forever. At some point we all have un-stomp-able fantasies, like her monsters, which  at a later point we recognize as  stomp-able fantasies - sometimes stomped by us and sometimes by others. If, as we discussed, the written word [and thought] can be divided into four categories: fiction, non-fiction, stomp-able fantasy and un-stomp-able fantasy and that under certain circumstances they can  and do change their value and place, why then can’t a skyhook become a crane and a crane become a skyhook?

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