Stories and Odd People | G.K. Chesterton

I'm re-reading Orthodoxy (cause I barely remember it) and want to post quotes as I go. I like this one:

Oddities only strike ordinary people. Oddities do not strike odd people. This is why ordinary people have a much more exciting time; while odd people are always complaining of the dulness of life.

This is also why the new novels die so quickly, and why the old fairy tales endure for ever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it is his adventures that are startling; they startle him because he is normal. But in the modern psychological novel the hero is abnormal; the centre is not central. Hence the fiercest adventures fail to affect him adequately, and the book is monotonous. You can make a story out of a hero among dragons; but not out of a dragon among dragons. The fairy tale discusses what a sane man will do in a mad world. The sober realistic novel of to-day discusses what an essential lunatic will do in a dull world.

Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), Orthodoxy

I couldn't agree more. But does this fit with recent decade of super-hero movies?

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