H04070 FAIRIES CONTINUED FROM OCTOBER - 11/11/04 - HARDY FORUM ARCHIVES

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From: segr@segr-music.net

Subject: Toadstools, or Back to Fairies

Date: November 11, 2004 1:08:08 PM PST

If we might just pause "for a moment" to collect some thoughts about

toadsmeat or stools

the latter have proved useful to the wee folk when they seek to shelter from

the elements or

perhaps from close scrutiny by humans.

The English are intrinsically a fey race although proof is only discoverable

by chance it seems.

An astonishing recent sighting (with names and addresses supplied!) will be

found described at

http://www.dace.co.uk/fairy.htm.

May I take this opportunity to nudge Betty to respond to a personal message

I sent which had to do with a gruesome possibility suggested by the fairy scene accompanying the song "The Elfin Call" recorded on my website?

Best to All.

www.segr-music.net

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From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu

Subject: Fairies

Date: November 11, 2004 2:45:13 PM PST

Well, I did take a closer look at the picture accompanying "Elfin Song" on

your website Roy, and I must say I can see how the image in the stream

could be interpreted as a wraithlike face. I also see what could be

fingers, but I'm not sure they could belong, in an anatomically correct

position, to that facelike image. I'm reminded a bit of those ghastly

presences in the stream in Browning's "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower

Came." While fording the stream, the protagonist exclaims:

". . . good saints how I feared / to set my foot upon a dead man's cheek, /

Each step, or feel the spear I thrust to seek / for hollows, tangled in

his hair of beard! / --It may have been a water rat I speared, / But ugh!

it sounded like a bay's shriek."

Perhaps we should look at the mythology surrounding water nymphs, or other

aquatic supernatural beings, to see if some kind of sinister relationship

exists between them and the common garden variety fairy.

Interesting sleuthing!

Betty

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From: jwwhipple1@comcast.net

Subject: Re: Fairies

Date: November 13, 2004 5:26:56 PM PST

Thanks, Betty!

--

From the moment I picked up your book until

I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

- Woody Allen

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From: segr@segr-music.net

Subject: RE: Fairies:if it's not too late

Date: November 14, 2004 5:02:14 AM PST

Bravo Mr Whipple!

What a splendid thing it would be

If we all could follow the example(s) set by

Woody Allen

I suppose it could help readers (and writers)

of the Hardy-List who might be keen to sharpen

their sense of humour.

More, please!

Roy Buckle

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