Fairylore, anyone?
Oct. 27th, 2004 12:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonNo, despite recent posts about ghosts I don't believe in fairies—unless I'm writing about them. But the news story referenced below is very suggestive of how legends of little people may have gotten started. I love science, but I'm always fond of seeing orthodoxy turned on its head.
[broken link about Homo floresiensis]
And from the quote file today, something that may relate:
"Many mysteries are never resolved. Men go on living anyway, in ignorance and fear, and though they may call their state of puzzlement intolerable, they seem able to tolerate it nonetheless, as long as their hearts keep beating."
—Steven Saylor, Catilina's Riddle
[broken link about Homo floresiensis]
And from the quote file today, something that may relate:
"Many mysteries are never resolved. Men go on living anyway, in ignorance and fear, and though they may call their state of puzzlement intolerable, they seem able to tolerate it nonetheless, as long as their hearts keep beating."
—Steven Saylor, Catilina's Riddle