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When I was a child, I had the worst nightmares. I was crawling out of my own bed and trying to sneak into mom and dad's bed until eight or nine years old.
It wasn't just the monsters under my bed. Those things never really scared me. What I was worried about were the demons in my mind. Whenever it was quiet and I was alone, I would start getting all sorts of thoughts, which followed me into my nightmares. I always woke up feeling unclean and vile, as if I'd killed people in another dimension. And I was worried sick that I would die in my sleep and go to hell because I had these bad thoughts. I dreamed of hell a lot.
Then at nine years old, I read A Wizard of Earthsea and learned the power of names. And suddenly there was a way for me to fight back. Suddenly, there was an entire arsenal at my disposal to combat all the strange, nameless terrors of the night, all the disgusting things that tried to convince me I was one of them. I could name them and order them out of my mind. I had power over them. I had actual fucking magic. I've loved fantasy ever since.
That's why I love that quote from G.K. Chesterton about children and dragons. “Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.” (Or in the case of A Wizard of Earthsea, a Ged who'll show you how to talk to them.)
Read the books: https://www.amazon.com/Wizard-Earthsea-Cycle/dp/0547773749/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1479653846&sr=8-6&keywords=tales+from+earthsea
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...and not because you're an Earthsea fan?
It all started here: A Wizard of Earthsea (1) (The Earthsea Cycle) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0547773749/