Until Jack Frozen got his memories back, I was terrified that it was a horror story. He would see himself as a child alone, with no one understanding, locked out and playing with snowballs by himself. But no, in fact he had a good start. A good start is basically the whole of a story! Tolkien's story begins in Shire, a cave in the ground where a hobbit would happily live. Paradise Lost begins in that paradise, with grapes and tender eyes. The best-written story of Jack Frozen is also beginning, and he's an extraordinarily smart kid. When his sister was in danger, he made her think it was just a game, comforted her, and finally saved her, even if he would suddenly fall into the ice water hole.
The most effective way to rule a kingdom with fear is to erase its past. Convince the people there that they are from the shadows and must do everything possible to escape from there. Since then, no matter what happens now, they won't care anymore. Conversely, to create a golden age, the past must be—at least imagined as rich and proud. Maybe it was people who wrote the story with the gods, maybe it came from a descendant of the gods...or maybe it was Jack Frozen who found himself saving his sister.
So what before this wonderful past was imagined? There is no other way but to have a Santa's heart. In order to write poetry, Nero burned down Rome, to see the tragic and solemn fire burning the city, but the poems he wrote were forgotten. Because the poems describing the burning of the city were not created by looking at this scene and then imitating it. No matter how imitated, what is written is still far from the truth. Santa Claus will look at a piece of burnt wood and write out the tragedy of the burning city.
I often feel lonely and some friends leave me. The road I walked was long and foggy. If I were Dante, there would be angels flying in to help me find shortcuts...I would take it with a dance and a smile. Then think of Santa's heart: huge eyes, and thousands of kisses. Every day is as curious as the first day alive, and like the last day, willing to give everyone a thousand kisses, two thousand.
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