Pandora's Box – Why Sometimes It's Better Not to Look
In all fairy tales known to mankind, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition.
Speaking of the laws of fairyland in Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton explains that in all fairy tales “the vision always hangs upon a veto. All the dizzy and colossal things conceded depend upon one small thing withheld. All the wild and whirling things that are let loose depend upon one thing that is forbidden.”
In all fairy tales known to mank…
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