The magic circle

"That state of mind has been called 'willing suspension of disbelief.' But this does not seem to me a good description of what happens. What really happens is that the storymaker proves a successful “sub-creator.” He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is “true”: it accords with the laws of that world."--J.R.R. Tolkien

 I'll tell you a secret: I don't believe in the willing suspension of disbelief. It's not that I've suspended my belief in suspension of d...