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After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in a story. They may be startling at the time, but it passes. One gets caught up in the narrative, but the dangers aren't real, are they? Things happen in any way the storyteller chooses. It is all just made up.

From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.

Pah!' said Sam. 'What good is there in feeling happy one day if you go back to how you were the next?' 'What harm is there?' said the giant.

Sam's world grew and grew with each book he finished.

They were streetwalkers, women who sold themselves for money to men- good, God-fearing men who went to church with their wives the following Sunday without a care.