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There passed a child of four, a small girl on a footpath over the fields, going home in the evening to Erl. They looked at each other with round eyes. "Hullo," said the child. "Hullo, child of men," said the troll. . . . "What are you?" said the child. "A troll of Elfland," answered the troll. "So I thought," said the child. "Where are you going, child of men?" the troll asked. "To the houses," the child replied. "We don't want to go there," said the troll. "N-no," said the child. "Come to Elfland," the troll said. The child thought for a while. Other children had gone, and the elves always sent a changeling in their place, so that nobody quite missed them and nobody really knew. She thought awhile of the wonder and wildness of Elfland, and then of her own house. "N-no," said the child. "Why not?" said the troll. "Mother made a jam roll this morning," said the child. And she walked on gravely home. Had it not been for that chance jam roll she had gone to Elfland. "Jam!" said the troll contemptuously and thought of the tarns of Elfland, the great lily-leaves lying flat upon their solemn waters, the huge blue lilies towering into the elf-light above the green deep tarns: for jam this child had forsaken them! ↗


— Lord Dunsany


#choices #elfland #men

The Hawk hired fifty harpers and jesters and taught them new songs. Songs about the puny fairy fool who had been chased away from Dalkeith-Upon-the-Sea by the legendary Hawk. And being such a legend in his own time, his tales were ceded great truth and staying power. The players were delighted with the epic grandeur of such a wild tale. When they had rehearsed to perfection the ditties and refrains portraying the defeat of the fool, the Hawk sent them into the counties of Scotland and England. Grimm accompanied the group of players traveling to Edinburgh to help spread the tale himself, while Hawk spent late hours by the candle scribbling, crossing out and perfecting his command for when the fool came. Sometimes, in the wee hours of the morning, he would reach for his set of sharp awls and blades and begin carving toy soldiers and dolls, one by one. ↗


— Karen Marie Moning


#hawk #karen-marie-moning #england

In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island. ↗


— Tim Bishop


#budget #district #economic #economic security #eliminates

Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve. ↗


— Emeril Lagasse


#classically #england #evolve #growing #growing up

I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island. ↗


— Foxy Brown


#endured #even #i #i came #island

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health. ↗


— Karl Lagerfeld


#anorexic #bad #cent #dangerous #england

Oh, to be in England now that April's there. ↗


— Robert Browning


#england #now #oh

My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands. ↗


— Nicholas Lea


#canada #goal #gulf #hopefully #i

Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine. ↗


— Robin Leach


#bring #britain #change #cheap #could

Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy. ↗


— Anjelica Huston


#ireland #kinds #lunacy #oh






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