Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Rewriting History and Fairy trickery

I didn't think of this in class when we were discussing Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell's rewriting of English history, but in one of the footnotes tells that on his conquest of the British Isles, Julius Caesar met the fairies and they promised him his greatest wish, to rule the world. And in accordance with their usual form of granting favors, Caesar didn't enjoy it very long.

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