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As it cannot be

…it is not the furniture — the dragons, ogres, elves and wizards, the magical swords, cups and corkscrews — that make a work fantasy but that hopeless yearning vision of life as it cannot be that burns green and eternal at its heart.

From the essay ‘In the tradition’ by Michael Swanwick. Emphasis mine.