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Having a bit of a wibbly day today, as a pre-lunch search through some boxes in the general library produced some rather valuable old books which were a surprise to all concerned. Even more of a surprise when I did some searching on viaLibri and discovered how valuable! Yay for old books - talk about survivors!
How they might have survived is another matter. I think they may have been feeding on younger volumes.
Boy they need a clean though.
I've also been doing some research for May Queen which is fun. Using the setting I am, some rather strange things pop up in research and I often find myself following lines of inquiry that I never intended to follow. Fairies are interesting things as they turn up just about everywhere in western european stories and their tales intersect, or turn out to be ever so slightly different versions of each other. So I end up reading and re-reading, trying to figure out some sort of core or basis that I can use in May Queen. I think I may have read more for this book than for anything else I have written. Hopefully it will be worth it in the end. :D
How they might have survived is another matter. I think they may have been feeding on younger volumes.
Boy they need a clean though.
I've also been doing some research for May Queen which is fun. Using the setting I am, some rather strange things pop up in research and I often find myself following lines of inquiry that I never intended to follow. Fairies are interesting things as they turn up just about everywhere in western european stories and their tales intersect, or turn out to be ever so slightly different versions of each other. So I end up reading and re-reading, trying to figure out some sort of core or basis that I can use in May Queen. I think I may have read more for this book than for anything else I have written. Hopefully it will be worth it in the end. :D
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