Sweet Aurora

Princess Aurora.

It's Aurora!

Hail to the Princess Aurora

Hail Aurora

Oh, the Princess Aurora?

Elif Shafak The politics of fiction

Long live the Princess Aurora

A daughter was born, and they called her Aurora.

We live in the twilight of our world, Horemheb.

Why, this is the most amazing II didn't say it was Aurora.

And in yonder topmost tower, dreaming of her true love, the Princess Aurora.

We back so far up we're finally seeing a containment around us the afterglow of the Big Bang.

After all, Aurora knows nothing about all this.

Gregor first woke up from his heavy swoon like sleep in the evening twilight.

It's dark. High noon on Titan is as dark as deep earth twilight on the Earth.

Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place

And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place

And it is the French, the avatars of Enlightenment and the Rights of Man, who have stepped in to provide a patina of legitimacy to his political twilight.

In its annual festival this year, Munich s Bavarian State Opera put on a new production of the apocalyptic Götterdämmerung, the final work in Richard Wagner s four evening cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.

He rarely went abroad by daylight, but at twilight he would go out muffled up invisibly, whether the weather were cold or not, and he chose the loneliest paths and those most overshadowed by trees and banks.

Listening to stories widens the imagination telling them lets us leap over cultural walls, embrace different experiences, feel what others feel. Elif Shafak builds on this simple idea to argue that fiction can overcome identity politics.