Etiqueta: Luck and fiction
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Why do stories need luck to survive?
[…] in 1936, when she was twenty-nine, the firm of Willett Clark published the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogion by Evangeline Walton under the title The Virgin and the Swine. An America just climbing out of a worldclass Depression was notably uninterested in fantastic legend, still the stuff of children’s books. Next, three loosely linked short stories appeared, based on the Breton legend…