Today, in our time, they exist in the city and each day they wake, the boundaries between reality and fiction become harder to detect. They have no control over the dimension in which they move. They exist in multiple realms, often simultaneously, but cannot always abide by their rules. The Great Imagination helps them to find truth and meaning through a fantasy; one dependent on perpetual revisions to the outlines that define their real world. They cannot hope to evolve without this fantasy. Cultures cannot grow without myth, and they have exhausted their best stock. They must find more or perhaps invent some. With such precarious times ahead, what might become of their new mythologies and beacons of hope that help them navigate through unchartered lands? The story of this age need not be a cautionary tale.
The Desire for Dragons (cover illustration by Author inspired by the early paintings of J.R.R Tolkien)