Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on top of the disheveled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame!
We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.
- Charles de Lint
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
- C.S. Lewis
- C.S. Lewis
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
- William Butler Yeats
I wanted a detour from the realities of this week. The following short film by Kranti Kanade appealed to me, I'm not sure exactly why. It's an escape, but more than that. Seeing the delight on the faces of these people took me completely away from myself. Which is exactly the kind of detour I needed.
(Description at You Tube: A series of people from different countries and cultures are questioned with the most simple yet the most unlikely question: "Do you believe in Fairies?" They are surprised by their own answers.)
The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve;
lovers to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.
- William Shakespeare
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