Quotes From "Au Coeur Du Fantastique" By Roger Caillois

The fantastic is always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality Roger Caillois

It should be particularly stressed that the fantastic makes no sense in an out-and-out strange world. To imagine the fantastic in it is even impossible. In a world full of marvels the extraordinary loses its power. Roger Caillois