In
2014 Richard Dawkins, Oxford Professor and well-known evangelical
atheist, described fairy tales as pernicious, and said that children
should instead be taught scientific rigour. In response I wrote this
short story:
THE BAD PROFESSOR
There
was once a bad professor who didn’t believe fairies existed. And if
they did exist, well they oughtn’t. And all the children in the land
were afraid, because when the Moon was growing bigger in the sky and the
stars were out and if they were unlucky, there would be a knock on
their bedroom window while their parents were asleep, and there would be
the face of the professor with his helpful smile.
In
he would come without so much as a by-your-leave, and he would rifle
through their books – again without so much as a by-your-leave - and
he’d take out all the fairies, as well as anyone else he didn’t believe
in. And into his jam-jar they went, and they got stored, so it was said,
in the shed at the bottom of his garden.
And
the jam jar got so full, and the buzzing of angry fairies became so
intense, that one day they burst out. And they headed straight up the
garden, with Santa, a bit out of breath, bringing up the rear. The
fairies made a beeline for the bad professor’s study where they found
him vivisecting an elf, a pool of elvin tears glistening at his feet.
Now
no-one knows exactly what happened next. But the screams were unearthly
and terrible, and they reverberated throughout the land, and all the
children instantly knew that their books and the fairies who lived in
them were once again safe, for the bad professor was no more.
Fairies are not always nice.
--------------------
I offer skype/FB video astrology
readings, by donation. Contact: BWGoddard1
(at)aol.co.uk
---------------------
No comments:
Post a Comment