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“When you are young so many things are difficult to believe, and yet the dullest people will tell you that they are true--such things, for instance, as that the earth goes round the sun, and that it is not flat but round. But the things that seem really likely, like fairy-tales and magic, are, so say the grown-ups, not true at all. Yet they are so easy to believe, especially when you see them happening. And, as I am always telling you, the most wonderful things happen to all sorts of people, only you never hear about them because the people think that no one will believe their stories, and so they don't tell them to anyone except me. And they tell me, because they know that I can believe anything.”
― The Enchanted Castle
― The Enchanted Castle
“I've not got much money, but I've got heaps of ideas.”
― The Enchanted Castle
― The Enchanted Castle
“A little poison now and then: that maketh pleasant dreams. And much poison at last for a pleasant death.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Yet though I must lose my life, fear shall never make me change colour.”
― Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
― Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
“In a world where money, security, children, money, temptation, sex, money, passion and more money is all that women expect of men, that is what men begin to offer. Anyone who has anything different to offer is dismissed, if reluctantly. Men, in their eternal wooing dance, tend to cultivate those qualities which the desired sex expects. What's more, women who gave birth to them and later on rehearse them for their role MAKE them that way, with the help of sisters, mistresses or wives. Those who are too strong or too weak to be thus moulded are cast aside as rejects, socio-sexual-matrimonial drop-outs. The price is paid by humanity as a whole in terms of values. You cannot denigrate a part without diminishing the whole. Women, by relegating man to the status of a working slave, becomes a slave herself. Is diminished morally even if she does remain physically and intellectually superior. Granted that her responsibility for the propagation and survival of the species necessitates her adopting the master role -- she has to have safety, security and comfort, as much as humanly possible, to ensure the continuation of the human race -- it still remains a morally untenable stance.”
― Thirteenth House
― Thirteenth House
Folklore & Fairytales
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For everyone who is interested in folklore and fairytales, either as a reader/hearer, writer/storyteller, or researcher.
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Our fast-growing classical music group is sometimes erudite - and maybe a little eccentric - but we aim never to be exclusive. Classical music is a g ...more
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This group is dedicated to an appreciation of important works of literature, both classic and contemporary... that happen to fall into the category of ...more
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