It's a fantastical idea!

Rives recaps the most memorable moments of TED2006 in the free spirited rhyming verse of a fantastical mockingbird lullaby.

Stephen Petranek At first, it all seemed a little fantastical to me, but after challenging a lot of these ideas,

KB Victor Bravo talks of Venezuelan literary tradition as defined by the absurd, the grotesque, the fantastical, and a fascination with evil.

And whether it's the opening line from One Hundred Years of Solitude or the fantastical stream of consciousness in Autumn of the Patriarch, where the words rush by, page after page of unpunctuated imagery sweeping the reader along

When photographed under a 3D microscope, grains of sand appear like colorful pieces of candy and the stamens in a flower become like fantastical spires at an amusement park. Gary Greenberg reveals the thrilling details of the micro world.

Within such a structure, any location of the fantastical element is possible it may be hidden in, or leak into the apparently real world setting, it may draw the characters into a world with such elements, or it may occur entirely in a fantasy world setting, where such elements are part of the world.

Stephen Petranek At first, it all seemed a little fantastical to me, but after challenging a lot of these ideas, I began to take a lot of them seriously. And then September 11 happened, and I thought, ah, God, I can't go to the TED conference and talk about how the world is going to end.