Every heart a doorway español6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Perhaps this is why some of the most iconic works of fantasy, works we read as a child that shaped our love of reading and our love of the genre, are portal fantasies. For me at least, there’s something achingly powerful about the very concept of portal fantasies, the idea that this wonderful, magical world could be connected to ours by some secret passageway that if you’re receptive to it, and you’re lucky enough, you could reach out and touch it, fall through the gaps of this mundane world with all its troubles and cares, and find yourself somewhere else, somewhere different. John Harrison gives the location of the Merrie England café in the bathroom of which one of the characters discovers a portal to the Pastel City I travelled in the train to Huddersfield just to check if it works, (it doesn’t). ![]() As a child I was always on the watch for doors in the roots of trees or the sides of hills. ![]() ![]() You’re nobody’s doorway but your own, and the only one who gets to tell you how your story ends is you.Ĭonfession time: when I move into a new flat, I still check the back of the wardrobe for magical worlds. ![]()
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