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James and the Giant Peach

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A classic children's story written by british author Roald Dahl in 1961. Tells the fantasy story of an orphan boy James, who is forced into desperate living circumstances after the untimely passing of his parents. He is reduced into a meagre existence of survival, relying on his parasitic and vile aunts ( Spiker and Sponge ) for the basic necessities of life. 

One day, through a chance encounter. James is offered an opportunity to escape his menial existence through the fortune of magic. Not only does James end up escaping the melevolent grasp of his keepers claws, but he finds himself free and on a boundless new adventure. Ulimately landing in his promised land of New York city.

Stories are stories, and fantasy is fantasy. Yet how often do we find ourselves in real life  circumstances that have grown stranger than fiction ? As we grow older the parallels of reality and fiction can become somewhat more intertwined. As the moral truths of a story - that we laughed at previously - become something more valid and real to us.

Causing us to question whether we were too quick to dispel the notion of fantasy, when infact our own lives have presented to us questions that are bigger than ourselves and our own existense. Offering answers that border on the sublime, and requiring a leap of faith into the unknown. 

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
 Roald Dahl