"ONCE UPON A TIME..."

Cinderella
          
Pretty Woman

Walter Benjamin
(1892-1940; culture critic famous for synthesis of eccentric Marxism and Jewish messianism):

     "'And they lived happily ever after,' says the fairy tale. The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of mankind, secretly lives on in the story. The first true storyteller is, and will continue to be, the teller of fairy tales."

     "Es war einmal" = "Once upon a time"

     "In den alten Zeiten, wo das Wünschen noch geholfen hat..." = "In the olden times when wishes still helped..."