The Dapple of Life

Nathaniel's life is the picture of stability, routine. He knows how things are going to go from now the day he dies. Hope would like us to see that as a method for examining our own lives. You need stability, but you also need wildness and the unexpected in your life. With the fantastic limelight of eternity wit the idea that magic exists. And finally, because this is a fairy tale, this is also in defence of magic and in defence of fantasy.