"The tale is not beautiful if nothing is added.  Folktales remain merely dumb until you realize that you are required to complete them yourself, to fill in your own particulars."  -- Italo Calvino, Italian storyteller

I was reading Canadian Fairy Tales by Eva Martin and Laszlo Gal today, and read this quote at the end of the collection ( Read more... )

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Merry Christmas, lyredenfers. I had a blast making these. Enjoy!


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