The Source

Over the last few days I’ve been reading endless numbers of fairytales — in effect all of the fairy “color” books. Not on purpose, precisely, except insofar as I downloaded a compilation of them from Amazon and at this time they’re a useful thing to read.

You see, I’m trying to finish two books before the end of the month, which means I can’t afford to get captured by a story and end up sitting and reading all day. the (mostly Andrew Lang-compiled) fairytales are very short, about three pages...