Ben Domenech

is, I think, somebody correct me if you think I'm wrong, fairy is the source of all of these good things.

Fairy is the place where all these things come from.

Fantasy is...

the window that we open to let these things into our world.

Fantasy is the way that we make these things.

It's the way to relate fairy to us.

Yeah, it's the way to, I mean, I really do think of it as opening a window to it.

Subcreation is the act by which the writer opens that window, creates that fantasy, lets that fairy in.

And the secondary world is maybe the vision that they write down.

that the reader then enters into to glimpse that fairy.

And then the results of that, the effects of that on the reader are recovery, escape, and consolation.

I agree.

Absolutely well put.

Maybe the secondary world, I would add just that the secondary world is how we experience fairy through fantasy.

as written by the sub-creative act of the author, because we can't experience it as a primary world, right?

We can't physically go in a ferry and experience these things ourselves.

So the author, through an act of sub-creation, writes a fantasy

which brings the world of Faerie to us that we experience as a secondary world, the better that author is at the sub-creative act, the more internally consistent that world is, and therefore the more we can stay embedded in it, and therefore effectively experience recovery, escape, and consolation.

Oh, man.

That was good.