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There's a multi-volume set of children's literature anthologies (Collier's Junior Classics, 1962) on the bookshelf next to me here. I used to be under the impression that the stories were in increasing reading difficulty through each volume, but now I'm old enough to know that they're actually just themed. It so happens that one volume, "Legends of Long Ago" (volume 7) had a piece of paper sticking out of it, so I took it off the shelf, just kind of curious.
I open the book to find the paper (actually an old beer mat) marking... a Kalevala story. (The one with the destruction of the Sampo. The part at the end where Louhi hijacks the Sun and Moon.)
WTF.
I don't remember looking through these books any time in the last seven years, but it's possible. If not anything else, the beer mat is definitely older than that.
Ever since the whole Antonuk debacle in high school I've avoided Kalevala, fueled by a passionate dislike for mythological stories. But Tuomas said that it was, in the Finnish style, more about epic fails than about epic wins, (and dang, have there been lots of EPIC FAIL with my work recently) so I've been toying with the idea of giving it another shot.
This is what I mean when I sometimes say that "too many coincidences are happening" for randomness to explain things. It's not really serendipity. It's like everything is falling into place, and it's not like I've been asking for it.
Edit to add: In that story alone at least three things go wrong because people are clumsy and/or stupid. That's a lot of fail for a six-page story.
I open the book to find the paper (actually an old beer mat) marking... a Kalevala story. (
WTF.
I don't remember looking through these books any time in the last seven years, but it's possible. If not anything else, the beer mat is definitely older than that.
Ever since the whole Antonuk debacle in high school I've avoided Kalevala, fueled by a passionate dislike for mythological stories. But Tuomas said that it was, in the Finnish style, more about epic fails than about epic wins, (and dang, have there been lots of EPIC FAIL with my work recently) so I've been toying with the idea of giving it another shot.
This is what I mean when I sometimes say that "too many coincidences are happening" for randomness to explain things. It's not really serendipity. It's like everything is falling into place, and it's not like I've been asking for it.
Edit to add: In that story alone at least three things go wrong because people are clumsy and/or stupid. That's a lot of fail for a six-page story.
