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...reads a little as if Alice had blundered into the court of Pierre Louÿs instead of the Red Queen. The book abounds in bare-breasted courtesans and tall, flashing-eyed men, many of them wicked. Most of the action, described in lavender prose, takes place in fairyland, which is reached by springing lightly off Notre Dame de Paris. The heroine, for reasons probably most obvious to a 14-year-old girl bent on writing a naughty novel, is a nude model. Nevertheless, she remains pure to the end in spite of the blandishments of satyrs and other fairyland...
...Said one parent: "Disneyland may be just another damned amusement park, but to my kids it is the Taj Mahal, Niagara Falls, Sherwood Forest and Davy Crockett all rolled into one. After years of sitting in front of a television set, the youngsters are sure it's a fairyland before they ever get here...
...travels to the Far East, Author Lafcadio Hearn wrote in 1904: "Here, all is enchantment. You have entered bodily into Fairyland-into a world that is not and never can be your own. You have been transported out of your century into an era forgotten, back to something as ancient as Nineveh." In 1956 nearly 75,000 U.S. visitors, more than ever before, will journey to the Far East looking for some of the same enchantment. The main travel spots...
...tilled farms, tranquil lotus ponds and brilliantly colored shrines and temples. The finest temples are at Kyoto, Nara, where the 1,349-year-old Horyuji Temple is said to be the world's oldest wooden building, and at Nikko, where the brilliant Toshogu Shrine is set in a fairyland of rugged mountains, waterfalls and virgin forests. Tourists also like to drive along the Izu Peninsula, with its tiny fishing villages and bubbling hot springs, visit Hakone for the best view of snow-capped Fujiyama, and stop at Toba, near Ago Bay, where they can see the world...
Soul of a Peasant? Fanny delighted in a fairyland peopled with lovely and fantastically incompetent natives who were always either crying or laughing, and for ever trying to help. "Simi [the butler] ... is breaking everything we possess. He smiles with a kind tolerance when he smashes something precious, and is more like an English colonel than words can express...