Fairy tales never go out of style.
Dreams and
legends and tales,
They
have been faithfully preserved
to interest
humans
about commoners and kings
and the illimitable realms of the imagination:
the favorites
and the lesser-known ones.
This
is
“The Story of the Man who did not Wish to Die,”—
taken from
not
belongs to.
I have always found eager listeners
and
in telling them I have also found that
has encouraged me to write them.
erasure from “Japanese Fairy Tales,” compiled by Yei Theodora Ozaki, preface
To & From the Void 