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Oh my word, the artwork here is beautiful. So many colors and rich clothes. The people had Earth to walk around on and not just air. It was nice. The artwork pulls from Chinese artwork. There are full page fold outs as well that make for a panoramic view.

I love this tale. There's been some point in life where we pretend with other people we see what they see because we don't want to seem foolish and uninformed. It mostly happens in children. I think of the snipe hunt people love to take kids on. Sometimes, our imagination is so powerful, we really can see it.

This story perfectly captures that moment of not wanting to appear foolish. It allows us to be taken advantage of. The funny thing is that most of the time, stories like to use that very thing to prove an exception. Pretty Woman or Cinderella. Someone really does want to lift us out of our dreary lives. We will win the lottery. etc, etc. Yes, it can happen, the these tropes prey on our hopes. Maybe, also, sometimes we want to believe so much in the magical clothing, we can convince ourselves it's so.

We need both in life. We need some magical thinking, that's where Apple came from and we need some grounded reasoning and we have to use both. Anyway, great story. It's been a long time since I read this.