A sprite's understanding of time
Posted: Sun May 31, 2020 3:37 pm
I found a blog called "American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Wee Folk "
https://aspcwf.wordpress.com/
There is some great information on it, a lot of it gathered from the author's own experience, it seems.
The articles were all written between 2012 and 2014. Here is an excerpt from the article: A Sprite’s Understanding of Time
@Chris: In one of the articles the author, George Harvey, said he moved to Scotland. (though didn't say where exactly)
He hasn't mentioned anything about how our electromagnetic lifestyle has affected the wee folk. No mention of "getting off this rock" either. His articles make it sound more like there is still plenty of wee folk around.
https://aspcwf.wordpress.com/
There is some great information on it, a lot of it gathered from the author's own experience, it seems.
The articles were all written between 2012 and 2014. Here is an excerpt from the article: A Sprite’s Understanding of Time
I find this rather fascinating. I never thought of something like this.[...] most Wee Folk do not usually view clock time or calendar dates as useful. There are multiple issues here.
One issue is that duration, in terms of clock time and calendar dating, is of no value to many Wee Folk. For example, I am told that deep underground, there are beings who derive their life energy from such things as the changes in pressure brought about by the tidal pull of the sun and moon. For some of these, each change of the tide is analogous to the breath drawn and expelled by a human being, but instead of taking a few seconds, it takes about twelve hours. Such folk live very slowly, through very long lives, by the standards of those who live above ground. The idea of a day of 24 hours would be quite useless to them.
By contrast, there are simple sprites whose entire lifetime is taken up using the energy of a ray of sunlight. These folk live very quickly, even by the standards of most other short-lived folk. In the time a Gnome spends thinking of something to say, the folk who live in a sunbeam have grown up, aged, and passed on to a different level of existence, possibly through a number of generations.
@Chris: In one of the articles the author, George Harvey, said he moved to Scotland. (though didn't say where exactly)
He hasn't mentioned anything about how our electromagnetic lifestyle has affected the wee folk. No mention of "getting off this rock" either. His articles make it sound more like there is still plenty of wee folk around.