Fairy tales

I think it was worthwhile to take a specific case to show that conclusion. Its major purpose is to make Popperian logic and Kuhn s unpredictable circle of normal science, crisis, and revolution better known among chemists and to show how both theories - those of Popper and Kuhn - commingle in the development of scientific discoveries. A third phenomenon should also be mentioned, although it did not play a role in our specific case, namely serendipity, i. e., the gift of making valuable discoveries not sought for. The word serendipity was coined by the British writer Horace Walpole in a letter in 1754 based on the title of the Persian fairy-tale The... 

Fromm, Erich. The forgotten language an introduction to the understanding of dreams, fairy tales and myths. New York Rinehart, 1951. 

Bayley, Harold. The lost language of symbolism an inquiry into the origin of certain letters, words, names, fairy-tales, folklore, and mythologies. London Williams Norgate, 1912. 2 vols (375, 388p.)... 

McLean, Adam. The myth of the Fall and Goethe s Fairy Tale. Hermetic Jno. 18 (Winter 1982) 36-40. 

There is an interesting allegorical tale with definite alchemical undertones in the German romantic author Novalis novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen which has some parallels with Goethe s Fairy tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily. 

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. "The fairy tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily." In The Dedalus occult reader the garden of Hermetic dreams, ed. Gary Lachman, 78- 108. Sawtry (Cambs) Dedalus, 2004. 

Haber, then 33, joyfully wrote to her uncle, Fate has been kind to me. Your Niece, Dr. Clara Immerwahr, of whom I was fond as a student and then for ten years tried very hard but unsuccessfully to forget, has said yes to me. We saw each other at the Congress in Freiburg, spoke to each other, and finally Clara allowed herself to be persuaded to try a life with me.. . . [We were] like a prince and princess in a fairy tale wrapped up in a dream. On August 3, 1901, three months after becoming engaged, Clara and Fritz were married. 

Spotts, P. 2002. No fairy tale Researchers spin straw into gold. The Christian Science Monitor. August 29. 

My attitude was "Fine, we ll try it." The atmosphere was drenched with the bizarre. Now we had arrived at the center of the Amazon and we could feel something in the sky, watching. At first, we had been happy heads trying to explore one last fairy tale so we could be rationalists forever, and instead we encountered something enormous. 

Little Red Riding Hood is portrayed as naive and innocent, just like all girls in fairy tales. 

Well, maybe in all the fairy tales you ve read, but in fact, many fairy tales describe girls who are sophisticated, cunning, and even dangerous. There are many exceptions to the rule this writer just established, and thoughtful readers will be put off by such a statement. 

The fairy tale statement could be revised as follows ... 

I know only that she was young and married to an older man. Zorzi told exaggerated fairy tales of his debauchery with courtesans just to annoy his father, but he was very discreet about the others. Other one, I mean. That was a tme love affair ... 

The number three, common in fairy tales, is often associated with the figure of the fool or dwarf who tells his lord three truths or pays him three compliments (Tietze-Conrat 13). Moreover, the tale could be linked with the three fates, or three spinners, that Freud discusses in his essay The Theme of the Three Caskets. Freud notes that the choice between three ineluctably ends with the third element—death lead (the third casket of The Merchant of Venice), or here, Rumpelstiltskin s name or the girl s spinning. Silas Marner is also organized around threes. I have already invoked Kofman s compelling discussion of the apparent choice in Shakespeare s comedy as masking the fact that metals are, materially, ambivalent—that is, they are all subject to potential reverse transformation. 

Wiesenfarth 232. In fairy tales, the third time is often the charm. Jacob Grimm writes of fairies from Brittany korred or corrigati) who comb their hair next to a river. If they do not find husbands within three days, they must die (Grimm 1953, vol. i, 370). 

Bottigheimer, Ruth B. Tale Spinners Submerged Voices in Grimms Fairy Tales. New German Critique 27 (1981) 141—50. 

Reichardt, Jasia, Cybernetic Serendipity The Computer and the Arts (New York Praeger, 1969). (This book has a chapter on Japanese haiku, computer texts, high-entropy essays, fairy tales, and fake physics essays.)... 

Chemistry offers vast material, little light, much work Philosophy has not provided any clarity the principles that are followed are obscure or uncertain the books are presented in terms more appropriate to hide the ignorance of their authors than to enlighten the mind. To these shadows the chemists often join fairy tales finally they are always in dispute with one another, they accord neither with themselves nor with nature. 

The Symbolic-level "world" of myth and ritual, the world of legendary and fairy-tale themes and figures, of archetypes and other timeless symbols and essences, is more profound and meaningful than the historical and evolutionary se-... 

Pressac (note 67) and van Pelt (note 69) are true masters in the composition of such inventions. The court historians either fail to notice or deliberately ingore the fact that these fairy tales are not based upon documents or physical reality. 

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