#marvelous

Supernatural fiction contains its own generic borderland: a neutral territory, which Tzvetan Todorov calls 'the fantastic,' between 'the marvelous' and 'the uncanny.' According to Todorov, 'The fantastic is that hesitation experienced by a person who knows only the laws of nature, confronting an apparently supernatural event.' Once the event is satisfactorily explained (and sometimes it is never explained), we have left the fantastic for an adjacent genre - either 'the uncanny,' where the apparently supernatural is revealed as illusory, or 'the marvelous,' where the laws of ordinary reality must be revised to incorporate the supernatural. As long as uncertainty reigns, however, we are in the ambiguous realm of the fantastic. ↗

— Howard Kerr

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Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top. ↗

— Jimmy Dean

#cream #ice #ice cream #love #love is

We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#failure #forced #like #live #living

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#drinking #first #marvelous #personality #place

I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else. ↗

— Julia Child

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I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive. ↗

— Johnny Carson

#i #inexpensive #know #married #marvelous

Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt. ↗

— John Hench

#because #cynical #great #great respect #had

Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#deals #depending #done #flip #get

East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual. ↗

— David Hockney

#does #east #glaciers #hills #just

I had a marvelously happy childhood. ↗

— Darius Milhaud

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