It pleases me to carry little worlds about with me.
We should all do this.
Carry a tiny token of the world with you.
There is a kind of magic in doing so.
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I think there’a something to this. The idea of a matchbox shrine or a tiny temple that you carry around with you is quite ancient. It is indeed magic.
In The Neverending Story, Atreyu wears a pendant with a pair of serpents swallowing one another’s tails. In one climactic scene of the book, when he sets this talisman down it expands to form a huge temple with a fountain at the center: a place of renewal.
William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones once created together a gorgeous edition of Chaucer which Burne-Jones described as “a pocket cathedral.”
You know I want to create a temple of the beautiful boy. It’s an open question whether I’ll ever get the support needed to create it at full scale. That takes real estate, which costs. But I can certainly create its design in the form of a book. A small object like that is more likely to survive a dark age than a full-scale temple, especially if there are multiple copies.
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I think there’a something to this. The idea of a matchbox shrine or a tiny temple that you carry around with you is quite ancient. It is indeed magic.
In The Neverending Story, Atreyu wears a pendant with a pair of serpents swallowing one another’s tails. In one climactic scene of the book, when he sets this talisman down it expands to form a huge temple with a fountain at the center: a place of renewal.
William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones once created together a gorgeous edition of Chaucer which Burne-Jones described as “a pocket cathedral.”
You know I want to create a temple of the beautiful boy. It’s an open question whether I’ll ever get the support needed to create it at full scale. That takes real estate, which costs. But I can certainly create its design in the form of a book. A small object like that is more likely to survive a dark age than a full-scale temple, especially if there are multiple copies.
Tiny is magic.
Z
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