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No matter the semantics, they are of a kind and it is legend and myth that binds us all together.
The Little Country (1991)
It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.
The Little Country (1991)
Legend and myth are what we use to describe what we don't comprehend.
The Little Country (1991)
I love this world … That is what rules my life.
The Little Country (1991)
Their hearts swelled with its beauty, its mystery. With all it revealed, and all that it hid.
The Little Country (1991)
Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
The Little Country (1991)
It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn...
The Little Country (1991)
A body of work may be reviled — mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings — and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.
The Little Country (1991)
They stood and listened, arms around each other for comfort, as the sound washed over them. It reverberated in the marrow of their bones, sung high and sweet, heartbreakingly mournful, quick as a jig, slow as the saddest air. Their hearts swelled with its beauty, its mystery. With all it revealed, and all that it hid.
The Little Country (1991)
The Lost Music was his way of talking about the way he believed that old wives' tales and dance tunes and folktales were just the tangled echoes of something that's not quite of this world … something we all knew once, but have forgotten since.
The Little Country (1991)
Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused — hence all the old tales of elfin Kingdoms moving further and further away from our world, or that magical beings require our faith, our belief in their existence, to survive. … That is a lie. All they require is our recognition.
The Little Country (1991)