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.
7 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Maybe "dull routine" might actually be intriguing to jaded elves.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: there's a thought! I remember a comedy skit where two wild partygoers take a drug that makes them (temporarily) into bored, jaded office workers going home on the subway.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Glad to suggest an interesting thought to you!
I can see how "wild parties" can eventually pall.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: well, youth ends...
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Ha, too true! But I also had in mind how damaging orgies can be: too much intemperance can lead to STDs, obesity, alcoholism, addictions, with all the bad things resulting from such things.
Just think of Kim Jong Un and how bloated he now is as ruler of N Korea.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: Self-indulgence is a menace, yes. And Kim Jong Un had nobody to tell him he was doing the wrong thing... in a country where starvation is a threat, too.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Because only Kim Jong Un's father could control him. After the old man died Kim was able to be as self-indulgent as he wanted. And to heck with those starving N Koreans.
Ad astra! Sean
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