Ours is a highly individualised culture, with a great faith in the work of art as a unique one-off, and the artist ad an original, a godlike and inspired creator of unique one-offs. But fairy tales are not like that, nor are their makers. Who first invented meatballs? In what country? Is there a definitive recipe for potato soup? Think in terms of the domestic arts. “This is how I make potato soup.
Angela Carter; quotes in My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me. [emphasis on ‘I’.]
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