Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.
From Joan D. Vinge
Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.
There's no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.
What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.
The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.
Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.
Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?
The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.
And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.
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