The Night the Ghost Got In | The Romantic Imagination
In the following essay excerpt, Morsberger discusses Thurber’s philosophy of fantasy.
V Facts and Fantasy
‘‘Dis morning bime by,’’ said his hired man Barney Haller, ‘‘I go hunt grotches in de voods.’’ Such a statement set Thurber’s mind on fire. ‘‘If you are susceptible to such things, it is not difficult to visualize grotches. They fluttered into my mind: ugly little creatures, about the size of whippoorwills, only covered with blood and honey and the scrapings of church bells.’’ The grotches turn out to be nothing more than crotched branches of trees, but a world without grotches is a duller place. ‘‘There is no person,’’...
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