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Faulty pontification as some kind of wisdom.

Tolkien also enjoyed having mundaine things appear magical. — “…some slow old-fashioned dance ... in and out, in and out. Why, they were only figures on a piece of tapestry flapping in the wind!”

I appreciate the small setting and the overwhelming shadow of the nebulous “Fairy Land” beyond the hills that dominates the town.

Cambridge notes that Hope Mirrlees had friends in the temperance movement, which isn’t surprising for the era she lived in.

Interesting that this book and the harm of “faery fruit” came out at the height of Prohibition in America and the height of the Temperance movement in the UK.

Random sacrificing of young maidens

What a long journey to finding a box with all the evidence!

Faery faire taken by Gaiman decades later.

So many trials!

I had no idea this was going to be a law trial story.