The Three Mountain Task is a child psychological experiment developed by Jean Piager and Bärbel Inhelder to study a child’s ability to coordinate spatial perspectives. Encyclopedia defines the task as “a child faced a display of three model mountains while a researcher placed a doll at different viewpoints of the display. The researcher asked the child to reconstruct the display from the doll’s perspective, select from a set of pictures showing the doll’s view, and identify a viewpoint for the doll specified by a picture of the display.”
Much like this, there is no one way to explain or experience the fantastic. Elements such as time, space, reality, crossing dimensions vary from story to story, and so such a graph to explain it should change every time you read something new. In my graph / chart there are two of many perspectives, the ‘body of the fantastic’ is the mountain we are all looking at and determining what to say.
