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Collected here are various short pieces that caught my fancy at some point in time. They are arranged alphabetically.
Oocihgeaskw, the Rough-Faced Girl
Threshold of the Door by Félix Martà Ibáñez
The word fairy comes from the Latin fata (fate), which became "enchantment" in French. So fate and magic are always associated in traditional tales: and the kind of fairy found in modern Western story-books, usually for children, is only one form of this concretized Fate. In Greek and Roman times, there were believed to be three Fates, which arbitrarily controlled every person's life.
The three gunas, or colored threads (white, red, and black), of India were said to run through every life as ordained by the Fates. Ovid, Theocritus, and others wrote of the same colored life-threads in Greek literature.
Berlin and Kay also found that, in languages with fewer than the maximum eleven color categories, the colors followed a specific evolutionary pattern. This pattern is as follows:
