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The specific mode of existence of man implies the need of his learning what happens, and above all what can happen, in the world around him and in his own interior world. That it is a matter of the structure of the human condition is shown, inter alia, by the existential necessity of listening to stories and fairy tales, even in the most tragic of circumstances.

— MIRCEA ELIADE, THE FORBIDDEN FOREST

Gretel began to cry and said,

“How are we to get out of the forest now?”

— THE BROTHERS GRIMM, “HANSEL AND GRETEL”