Little velveteen Knight

Infants like phantoms, denied and suspected, their

existence discovered always when least expected.

Prepared for the day, the knight, he just cannot keep

the perfect mask in its place, when he is falling

asleep. Faces slacken in slum ber, each rigid muscle

relaxes, without warning the hidden child comes to the

surface. From the deepest darkness, some unnameable

place, of the tower inverted, forms a different face;

climbing upwards with effort, to see through the eyes.

..- windows to the soul -now shut- are starring inside.

And while the outside beholder sees the face of a

child, this fearful and helpless infant turns to a wild

beast inside: becomes the architect of the most

terrible dreams and puts a crue l fears of death into

our hero's sleep...

This child is a dragon, who you must strive to kill,

though it defeated you once ... and, yes, it always

will! Oh, little velveteen knight (and heroes of all

kinds), endeavour to slay the dragon... (... and

yourselves when you try)! Yes, this monster's immortal

... and your fight is in vain, it only will last

forever, some monsters just cannot be slain. This

infant's beast ..., and the dragon's its guardian,

protecting his child, so that no-one can harm it, their

most gruesome s hape puts the fear of death into our

supposed (but velveteen) hero; yet, you must get me

right: there is no choice for the child, its intentions

are good and always upright. Tell me, why do you from?

Do you bear questions ... or doubt?

Have you not recognised that both, dragon and child,

are in face more than kin...- they represent the same

thing! And all our characters that you will see or seem

are merely part of the dreamer ... and therefore the

dream.