Does "Dracula" taking place in an actual country keep it from being entirely fiction? The fact is, the bible could be a completely historical dictation until a dead jew rises from the grave, without which the bible is nothing, and it would still be fiction.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
