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[dreamer_easy]

What a strange collection of clippings in my old "Pagan" scrapbook. An article about a possible Roman fort discovered in Ireland; another about the dangers of messing with f*iry locations in Ireland; the discovery of traces of Neolithic retsina in the Zagros Mountains of Iran, dating back to 5400-5000 BCE; a Fortean Times article paralleling f*iries and aliens, which I know has greatly influenced my thinking; a news item on the discovery of one of Ashurbanipal's palace walls in a school in Dorset; articles on Jerusalem Syndrome, the percentage of words in the Gospels actually spoken by Jesus, and another on Jesus' family; the first man to be buried on the moon, and a consequent Navajo protest; and an article describing Peter Pan as a story of "genuine horror".

Comments

[purplepooka.livejournal.com]

On the subject of Alien/Fairy parallels, and specifically the idea of people returning from what seemed a short abduction to find the world moved on by decades or centuries, have you looked at Ursula LeGuin's short story 'Semley's Necklace'?

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

It does ring a bell...

[lordshiva.livejournal.com]

Peter Pan has always freaked me out. (Well, since I first read it as an adult in 1978.) The musical is one thing. The book is quite another. People who haven't read the book don't realize that Peter Pan still has all his baby teeth. It says so right there on the page, the observation of Wendy's mother, and her understanding of precisely how that plays on her maternal urges.

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

I met Gene Shoemaker very briefly about a month before he died. He was the keynote speaker at an astronomy conference in my hometown. The brief meeting was that there were some door prizes, and he pulled my name out of a hat. ^^;;

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

plilosophy?

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

A splendid typo from Lionel Fanthorpe, as reported in Ghastly Beyond Belief: "I'm an occult plilosopher [he snarled savagely]. But you wouldn't understand that."

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

oh god, I remember Fanthorpe. Lovely guy, the reverend, and the only fortean motorcycle priest I know, but my he got a lot of quotes in Ghastly.

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

I didn't know small proporations of someone were buried on the moon. I knew Timothy Leary and a couple of thers were blowing around in orbit somewhere.