Saturday, 5 September 2009

In "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings," is the reaction of the villagers and crowds normal considering that the old man actually has physical wings?

 


The world of the story is one of Magic, where elements of supernatural and outright
magic are considered ordinary. Because of this, the discovery of a man with wings is not
considered an extraordinary discovery, as it would in the real world, but instead something to
be pondered and examined; is the man an angel or simply a man who happens to have wings? The
people in the village are used to sideshow exhibits with strange mutations, and it is revealed
later that magical...


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