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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. – Walter Benjamin

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Meret Oppenheim, from The Milk Bowl of Feathers, edited by Mary Ann Caws (New York: New Directions Publishing, 2018).

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And there and then he set out to find another pale pink mushroom home.

Gladys Masters, Return to Downland, New Old-Time Fairy Tales, illustrated by Nina K. Brisley (London: The Grant Educational Co. Ltd, 1939).

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Snowmen’s Field, … jolly snowmen came bouncing and rolling over the field towards them.

Gladys Masters, Return to Downland, New Old-Time Fairy Tales, illustrated by Nina K. Brisley (London: The Grant Educational Co. Ltd, 1939).

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With motherly hands she helped Wispy Woo to dress, ...

Gladys Masters, Return to Downland, New Old-Time Fairy Tales, illustrated by Nina K. Brisley (London: The Grant Educational Co. Ltd, 1939).

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... the Cloud Mother came herself to wake the little elf and his dog.

Gladys Masters, Return to Downland, New Old-Time Fairy Tales, illustrated by Nina K. Brisley (London: The Grant Educational Co. Ltd, 1939).

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Then the sunset maidens shone bright with happiness, ...

Gladys Masters, Return to Downland, New Old-Time Fairy Tales, illustrated by Nina K. Brisley (London: The Grant Educational Co. Ltd, 1939).

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‘Wispy Woo was so proud of the fact that he was sitting on the Cloud Mother’s right hand and Wuff on her left ...’

Gladys Masters, Return to Downland, New Old-Time Fairy Tales, illustrated by Nina K. Brisley (London: The Grant Educational Co. Ltd, 1939).

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Gladys Masters, Return to Downland, New Old-Time Fairy Tales, illustrated by Nina K. Brisley (London: The Grant Educational Co. Ltd, 1939).

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