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"Don't you dare to disparage fairy tales," said Grandfather sternly. "A fairy tale, dear sir, in relating miraculous happenings as though they were the normal events of every day, is a humble acknowledgment of the fact that this universe is a box packed full of mysteries of which we understand absolutely nothing at all; heaven alone knows what'll pop out of it next; a singing bird, the Theory of Evolution, gooseberry pie. You can wonder till you're blue in the face as to how the giraffe got his neck, or the gooseberry puffed himself out, but you don't know. You can't know. Any theory you may evolve about a giraffe's neck, my dear sir, is a fairy tale."
-Henrietta's House
*sigh* I have such a writercrush on Elizabeth Goudge!
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EDIT: What I don't love? Discovering the edition of this long-out-of-print book the library managed to hunt down for me is missing pages 193-208 (pages 161-176 are repeated in their place)! :O
-Henrietta's House
*sigh* I have such a writercrush on Elizabeth Goudge!
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EDIT: What I don't love? Discovering the edition of this long-out-of-print book the library managed to hunt down for me is missing pages 193-208 (pages 161-176 are repeated in their place)! :O