Brian Froud ~ Runes ~ Sustenance
Fairy Tales
If you are ever walking through the forest
and happen upon a fox
caught in a furrier’s trap
and the fox says to you in a funny little voice:
“Hey, if you help me out of this trap, I’ll grant you a wish!”
and you help the fox out by prying open the trap
with a tree branch
and the fox thanks you
and tells you that he has to go back to his fox hole
to get his magic spell book
to grant your wish
but first he needs to borrow twenty dollars or whatever cash you have on you
I can tell you FOR A FACT
that you are never going to collect on that magic wish.
Even if you wait around until dark.
Dallas Clayton
Brian Froud
In the world above, as night draws close, the grasses turn in the wind. Flowers bend. Petals fall. (Wendy Froud)
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
— G.K. Chesterton
Brian Froud
Runes ~ Fate {Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny ~ Kamran Hamid}
“Faeries tell us that small things can hold great truths.”
— Brian Froud
“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.”
— Jean Cocteau
Brian Froud
He will love you for the heat you generate,
for the flames you ignite around you,
though he encase your tiny feet in glass
to keep them from scorching the ground.
-Jeannine Hall Gailey-
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
— C.S.Lewis
Another World. Another Time. In the Age of Wonder. A thousand years ago, this land was green and good… until the Crystal cracked. A single piece was lost, a shard of the Crystal. Then strife began and two new races appeared: the cruel Skeksis and the gentle Mystics.
Dark crystal (1982)
“The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.”
— Albert Einstein
Who is to say who is the wise and who is the foolish? He who laughs in disdain but lives in a self-imposed, barren landscape, or he who stills his soul and listens with his heart for a faery’s song?
Brian Froud
“What we do in life echoes in eternity.”
— Maximus. Gladiator
Black womb spilling unseen images waiting to manifest in our dreams.
Crow Mother dances, crowned with stars.
Carrion feast waits, silently iced over.
Amber eyes watch from shadows, beaks and fangs ready for the taking.
Flesh and bone, Crow and snow colours of the moon: red, black, white.
WinterWoman turns out the light.
New Moon.
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