The Written Word is a Fairy as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice. So let all readers of books take warning
Hope Mirrlees
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The country people indeed did not always clearly distinguish between the Fairies and the dead. They called them both the Silent People and the Milky Way they thought was the path along which the dead were carried to Fairyland.
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But it is best to let sleeping facts lie.
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