It was the dealers and the mountebanks, pumped up with imagined self-knowledge, who added the signatures, the fake provenances, the fanciful stories of origin.

Fanciful stories abound of how pilots knew of one another and hoped to duel with each other in the skies.

When an editor or member of the writing staff left, the magazine would often concoct fanciful stories surrounding their leaving.

However, the fanciful stories persist and grow as time passes.

The book's poems address many common childhood concerns and also presents purely fanciful stories.