Oh, how wonderful! Thanks! I'm now cheered up after my first day back at work and it's freezing. That'll teach me to forget to preset the heater for my return home at night. :-)
Now I'm on the fairytale theme, I have started thinking of who else in this world could be likened to fairytale characters, LOL.
AFAIK, Hans Christian Anderson and the Grimm brothers collected all the known traditional fairytales in Europe and surrounds and published them all in their editions. I believe these traditional stories had been told since time immemorial, since long, long before the first printing press (or the first Western printing press, anyway). They survived to be written down for the first time ever when printing arrived and have never been out of print since. Really awe-inspiring, if you think about it. Too easy to take such things for granted.
Re: I'll come back to this later.
Date: 2009-07-13 09:55 am (UTC)Now I'm on the fairytale theme, I have started thinking of who else in this world could be likened to fairytale characters, LOL.
AFAIK, Hans Christian Anderson and the Grimm brothers collected all the known traditional fairytales in Europe and surrounds and published them all in their editions. I believe these traditional stories had been told since time immemorial, since long, long before the first printing press (or the first Western printing press, anyway). They survived to be written down for the first time ever when printing arrived and have never been out of print since. Really awe-inspiring, if you think about it. Too easy to take such things for granted.