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"I find that many modern fantasies explain things away far too easily, which makes a lot of it overly familiar . Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out, and for me, that's one of the pleasures of reading older collections of lore."
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