Guppees love the Ocean, Chupwalas try to poison it. I asked that question and it broke my father's heart. So it's up to me to put things right. You'd have done better to keep your feet on the ground but you had your head in the air. You'd have done better to stick to Facts, but you were stuffed with stories . . . .
Stories make trouble. . . .
Here, we're somewhere real. When Haroun heard his father say only a story , he understood that the Shah of Blah was very depressed indeed. . . . Children's stories also. For instance, there is an outbreak of talking helicopter anecdotes. The world is for Controlling. . . .