Hugin advises Holger:
"'Ye canna guess wha' the Faerie folk will think or do. They know not themselves, nor care.'" (p. 45)
One fairy, Menton, to another, the Cluracan:
"But Cluracan: we are creatures of anarchy and madness. We are the wild. How can you possibly describe us as creatures of custom?"
-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: The Kindly Ones (New York, 1996), Part 10, p. 9, panel 3.
The Cluracan's point is that the fairies have been anarchic, mad and wild for so long that that has become their custom and "...dull routine." (panel 4)
In any case, Hugin's and Menton's accounts agree and their "anarchy" explains why the fairies, at least in the Carolingian universe, take the side of Chaos against Law.
It is good to find some order in disorder.
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