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@@ -32,18 +32,18 @@ called realism. Henry James is quoted on that BBC show as saying
     whereas romanticism is something we will never encounter.
 
 Let us focus more on the story itself and not just on magic,
-which seems unimportant to me. Let us not think about fantasy
-stories at all, but let’s consider for example “Ivanhoe_” by
-Walter Scott on the one side as a romantic story, and let’s say
-“Kidnapped_” by Robert Louis Stevenson. Both of them are
-adventure stories full of suspension and drama, both them of
-course completely Muggle and completely free of any magic,
-supernatural or whatever else. I would say that the key word
-which differentiates them is “**exceptional**”. Whereas “Ivanhoe”
-is the novel about exceptional people (Robin Hood and his merry
-men, king Richard the Lion Heart, king John, historic and thus
-exotic knights and princesses) doing exceptional things (saving
-the kingdom for the rightful king among other things),
+which seems unimportant to me at this point. Let us not think
+about fantasy stories at all, but let’s consider for example
+“Ivanhoe_” by Walter Scott on the one side as a romantic story,
+and let’s say “Kidnapped_” by Robert Louis Stevenson. Both of
+them are adventure stories full of suspension and drama, both
+them of course completely Muggle and completely free of any
+magic, supernatural or whatever else. I would say that the key
+word which differentiates them is “**exceptional**”. Whereas
+“Ivanhoe” is the novel about exceptional people (Robin Hood and
+his merry men, king Richard the Lion Heart, king John, historic
+and thus exotic knights and princesses) doing exceptional things
+(saving the kingdom for the rightful king among other things),
 “Kidnapped” has the only historic event of any notice (Appin
 murder) in three paragraphs and it just an excuse in background
 for the rest of the story, which is about two completely
@@ -51,12 +51,12 @@ insignificant (*sub specie aeternitatis*) persons doing something
 completely historically insignificant: saving their lives and
 freedom (and inheritance for David). Realist stories (despite the
 bad rap they got from “Middlemarch”, Balzac and similar stuff)
-don’t have to be boring, but they have to be non-exceptional or
-normal (jury is still out, whether the legendary novel “Mr
-Bailey, Grocer” supposedly written by the character Harold Biffen
-in the novel “New Grub Street” by George Gissing and just
-describing the ordinary life of an ordinary grocer could be
-a good idea).
+don’t have to be boring, but they have to be non-exceptional
+or normal (jury is still out, whether the legendary novel “Mr
+Bailey, Grocer” supposedly written by the character Harold
+Biffen in the novel “New Grub Street” by George Gissing and just
+describing the ordinary life of an ordinary grocer could be a
+good idea).
 
 I really like “`History of Mr Polly`_” by H. G. Wells, which is
 beautifully written story despite being about pub-owner mixed
@@ -71,10 +71,10 @@ adventures during their holidays) or Kipling’s “`Stalky
 It is not only about characters and main story lines.
 Exceptionality is also in the characters of characters. The
 realist story deals with normal passions of normal people (for
-mzzbee_ stories infidelity, meaning of life, and finding a life
-partner). The romantic one is all about extremes: extreme love,
-saving the kingdom, the main opponent “[u]nscathed by the lance
-of his enemy, […] died a victim to the violence of his own
+mzzbee_ it is a story of infidelity, meaning of life, and finding
+a life partner). The romantic one is all about extremes: extreme
+love, saving the kingdom, the main opponent “[u]nscathed by the
+lance of his enemy, […] died a victim to the violence of his own
 contending passions” (Brian de Bois-Guilbert from “Ivanhoe”).
 
 All fantasy novels and comics are in this perspective romantic