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When I was reading the Story of the Student and His Son, it reminded me strongly of two things:
  1. The stories I read as a kid from several of Lang's Fairy Books. Really traditional fairy tale stories, the language and cadence of it matched those exactly. As a piece of writing, it really accomplishes what Wolf set out to do, I think.

  2. The illustrations from the back of Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials, which I also read a lot as a kid (and I still have that hard-back copy, which I took a picture of for this post). Specifically, the concept art for a story called Thype that Wayne Barlowe never ended up developing into anything. One of them featured a giant that had a castle in place of its head, seen above.

What always struck me about this is the pure fairy-tale logic if it. It's not justified in some complex way, there's just a person who is like a hundred feet tall, and in place of their head is a collection of buildings. In the same way that the Ogre in the story is described as having a normal human body, just large, and with a boat in place of its head.


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