Why I think we need fantasy

What I like about fantasy

fantasy or books with magic in them were always my first choice whenever I went to the bookmobile I attended in Scarborough. Then as a grown-up I was taken with the magic realism of Marquez and Julio Cortazar and Salman Rushdie. And poetry. And I think they all have much in common. The sense of escaping causality in the material sense getting into the poesis. A realm where the word is power. Poems and spells. A world where one could overcome vast forces with a word. Now science makes some of the wilder dreams of the poesis attainable. Flight. We dream it. We hold the vision hard and insist on it and our senses through science attain it. Same thing with telepathy. Same thing with healing and immortality. How many spells before mutations of the spells broke down into equations. All of which started with a vision of the world not the way it is or was-a magical vision. but as the lingo streams through the logos it selects more and more for the more exact language of numbers. we wind up in a world much more made of mathematical formulations than magical spells or the geist legends of poetry to which our organisms are attuned. We are not made for an exact world. nor an understandable world nor a predictable world. We are made for a fantastical world.