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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5635865" data-attributes="member: 54877"><p>Probably is loaded. So let me clarify that I'm using it here as Chesterton uses it, circa 1910, with a more positive meaning than it probably conveys isolated from his work and sensibilities.  It isn't the whole of it, but you can get a sense of the kind of limits Chesterton means by saying that fairy tale logic says that you can't have a non-greedy dragon.  Not because it is world breaking, rule breaking, or physics breaking--but because if you (as person with control of the narrative) take away the greed from a dragon, it isn't really a dragon in some ways.  That is, you can imagine a non-greedy dragon with no problem, but once you do, you took away several fairy tale options.  (Of course, if you are careful, you can replace the greed with something equally fairy tale inducing.  And good authors have.)</p></blockquote><p></p>