World Within Worlds....a thought...

Hi guys I was going through the blog of the Creator of Spiderwick Chronicles today(by the way I have not yet watched the movie, and couldn't get my hands on the books as of yet!), but I found almost everything there is to know about the Spiderwick Chronicles and I couldn't help myself wonder the various way people create their own imaginary worlds just to bring back the the adventure that has so much gone from our lives, sometimes I do envy our ancients, they did not know about the real of the World and had a lot more to dream on, than even our kids have today, let alone grown ups! I find this disconcerting as what would the condition of our next generation be if there is no food for imagination available...

But why am I talking about this? I planned to write something else...!...SO....

You know the concept of a secret world within Worlds was first successfully created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in his novel called The Lost world(The name is borrowed for the second Jurassic park Movie, but the story is completely different and believe me much more entertaining!) it was one of the various adventures of professor challenger. Sir Conan Doyle also wrote a very gripping but not very popular short story called The Horror Of Heights, where a scientist discovers a secret world high above in the air , which was a sort of Jungle and when he reaches it he gets killed by the Predators of the Avian forest.

Jonathan Swift also created a number of secret World within worlds in the adventures of Gulliver.

Then came a wide variety of writers who were fascinated by the concept of a secret world residing within our own, in fact the Fantasy Genres started developing by the handful solely based on that eerie plot of having a secret world where one can travel back and forth, live a comparatively mundane life in the real world and have adventures in the exotic, slowly the so called real and definitely mundane world fades into the back ground making the exotic world real as it is there where the characters can live like they always dream of living and have a meaningful life. Usually it is the children who visits these worlds as they are the ones who doesn't want to be bound by the rules of the physical world and rather be free in their dram worlds, sometimes even the adults can go there if and only if they remember how they too were once kids and could imagine. But it is always the kid's prerogative to be heroes in these worlds. it has always been portrayed that these kids who are misunderstood at first becomes a far better person than many and do far more good than one can possibly hope and they do it out of their good hearts and instinct and not from the tuition's given to them regarding what is good or bad!

However, coming back to Spiderwick and Conan Doyle's lost World...did you guys know that Sukumar Ray , father of Satyajit Ray, a master in creating satires and literary nonsense had made a pun of The Lost World and created the novella professor Henshoram Hunshiarer Diary! it is too funny if you could get your hands on a collection of Sukumar Ray read it once, you would find the most interesting combination of humour mixed with adventure and also a clean fun parody of the Lost World and the dark fun of the Secret World!

A World Within Worlds!!