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I Used tO tHINK ThaT tHeY WEre thinGS tHE WONderful FolK oF tHE sTorIes WeNt OUt aNd looKED fOR, bEcaUse tHey wanTEd theM, beCAUse thEy wEre exCitinG aNd life WAS a Bit DUll, a kINd oF a spORt, As yOU migHt SAy But ThAt IS not tHe wAy oF IT wIth tHE tALes tHAt reaLLY mattered, Or The oNEs THat StaY in thE mINd foLK SEEM to have beEn JUst lANDed In tHEm, usUAlly theiR pAtHS wERE lAid That wAY, as yOu PUT it But I exPEcT tHEy haD lOTs Of CHANces, lIke us, of tURNinG bacK, only tHEy DiD not.
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I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of a sport, as you might say but that is not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind folk seem to have been just landed in them, usually their paths were laid that way, as you put it but i expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they did not.