Smith of Wootton Major

[HerenIstarion]

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Originally Posted by lindil

The world of Niggle seems hopelessly polarized into dull practicalists and ineffective idealists; magic [another word I try and avoid] or a sense of childlike wonder has disappeared from everyday life as seen in Niggle not being able to share w/ love with his curmudgony neighbor and Parish{?} being unable to see the beauty peeping through his neighbors Magnum Opus.

In Leaf there is more of Christianity than of Faery, seemingly. It's shown that Niggle-Parish neighbourhood is planned by somebody (say Voices, but those are rather representations of Justice and Mercy, or maybe Angels of those?) to teach them both an acceptance, which gives fruit in the end after all.

...but what they are really like, and what lies beyond them, only those can say who have climbed them.