Thank you! I'm glad you find it interesting. Once I started looking for evidence of fairies and so on in Peace, I started seeing things scattered throughout. For example Mab, Den's maternal grandfather's housekeeper, is named after the "fairies' midwife" in "Romeo and Juliet". There's also Den's conflation of the landscape in the painting of his uncle Joe with the fairy lands of Andrew Lang. Wolfe implies that this association came after the accident with Bobby because Den doesn't receive the Green Fairy Book until he is six. Given that, as it spread across Europe, Christianity worked to replace the beliefs that came before it, it's tempting to think that Den is, in fighting Bobby, defending fairy against Christianity. It seems unlikely though, that he had this in mind at the time. Still, there's a difference between knowing a thing consciously and being under it's influence. I think Wolfe is pointing at that difference here, and trying to inform us about how to read the rest of the book. So what really happened in the attic? Den thinks the house knows, but won't tell him. Poor Den.