Haroun in Wonderland

What a fabulous story!  Throughout the entire novel I felt as though I had fallen through the rabbit hole.  Images of Alice in Wonderland kept popping in my mind and it's novels like this that make me wish I was a painter.  Alas I am just a humble reader trying to answer that ever present question: "What's the use of stories that aren't even true?"  In Haroun's case it was the loss of his father's storytelling abilities that started him on his journey and propelled him to succeed in returning inspiration to said father.  The loss of stories created not only despair but an eternal night, while the reintroduction of stories created a psychedelic world of color and light.  Which coincedentaly is the point of stories that aren't even true.  They bring color to our imagination and light our way in the darkest of times.