The Elvin Gypsy
- THE ELFIN GYPSY - A black ink and black color pencil drawing on an 11 x 14 size coquille board. It appears on the back cover of, "WEIRDBOOK 27".
The German poet, Schiller wrote, "Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life".
I suppose he refers to the guiding tenet in all fairy tales; that to be a human being means having to accept difficult challenges, and encountering the most awesome adventures that life offers.
In fairy tales, good always defeats evil, but we know that in the real world that's not always so. In real life, when Americans fought the British Army to gain freedom from England's rule, the British captured Patrick Henry. You know his famous words, "I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death". They hung him. He died a free man and inspired other Americans to continue the fight for freedom.
Fairy tales are metaphors that reinforce our belief that there is no alternative; good must defeat evil, now and for all time. And though, for every evil person, evil organization, or evil nation that goes down, it seems there is another that rises in its place. So it is that heroes must always rise to fight them, with a battle hymn like;
" Lift ev'ry voice and sing
Till earth and heaven ring
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty . . . "
- from the Negro national anthem,
. . . And that's no fairy tale.
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