Fantasy Author Charles De Lint

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and Dreams, as well as in the short story collection titled The Ivory and the Horn.
Charles de Lint was born in the Netherlands. He moved with his family to Canada only three months later. He confessed to Clinton Somerton in the article Charles de Lint takes readers Someplace to be Flying that he never planned to be a writer growing up. "For a long, long time, I was just going to be a musician" he said. Music does, in fact, play a large role in almost all his work. Along with his love for music, de Lint also "developed a large affinity to reading books" at a very young age. "He particularly enjoyed books on mythology and folk tales, which included Celtic folklore"(Somerton). It is no wonder that when he did begin to write that his work was highly influenced by all three types of literature. De Lint is connected with the creation of the "Urban Fantasy" genre. However, he actually started out writing in the traditional fantasy style. It was only when his wife, Mary Ann, suggested ...

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to be Flying takes readers on a fantastic journey by tapping into deeply rooted and shared human mythologies, and making them vital and accessibly again." He also writes that "Someplace to be Flying...links the hope of self-discovery to a heightened awareness of the world's possibilities, while bridging the sheer membrane between the mundane and the ethereal."
Shared and bridges are important words connected to the metaphor of the animal people in relation to Hank and Lily. It is the connection between the two characters that their meeting with the animal people represents. They discover that they are a part of each other. On a larger level, this is saying how everyone and ...

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