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they should invent a way for me to do tasks without the mind torture
there is a world out there I can’t comprehend
behold, context
are you feeling it* now Mr Krabs
*it = radiation sickness

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Folklorists and Lost Media Enthusiasts I need Help
There's this story I'm researching at the moment called "The Magic Thread" in the Book of Virtues by William Bennett from 1993, and the trail has gone cold.
The book of virtues calls this a 'french tale', and cites an English collection simply called "Fairy Tales", which I don't have access to from 1987, that book seems to be related to the series of books published in German in the 80s which was translated to french here
I've gotten the German book Der Zauberfaden which was seemingly published as part of this series in the 80s (85?) but it has essentially no publication information on it (no copyright page etc.)
And this version mentions the "French" part on the cover, but gives no further information about where the author found the story. Which means it's very hard for me to find anything earlier than this.
So basically, I am quite skeptical about whether this story really is French, but I'm unsure. If Wanner wanted to write his own original fairy tale, why call it French? Other tales listed in the series seem to be real and well attested, if it isn't his own original tale, is there an earlier version than this?
If anyone can find a version of this Magic Thread story (boy finds a thread and can pull on it to speed up his life) that predates the 1980s I would be thrilled to hear about it, regardless of whether it's in French, German, or any other language.
Please let me know if any of you can find anything!
I went looking for "Le Fil Magique" since I figured a French tale would have French sources, but the best I could find was a collection of fairytales by François Ponthier called "Contes de tous les pays" which indeed credits "Le Fil Magique" to France but gives little further information. The book itself is a 1986 translation of the original German 1985 book "Die schönsten Märchen für das ganze Jahr"
Oh I forgot to provide the update on this, with the help of a French friend after a lot of searching I managed to track it down!
I might talk more about the process at some point but long story short there is a moral tale in a children's book by Jean-Marie Guyau called La Bobine Merveilleuse from the late 1800s which seems to be the origin.
I previously accessed it at this link, but it's not working for me at the moment. It's in his collection called La première année de lecture courante : morale, connaissances usuelles, devoirs envers la patrie.
they ate him up with that one
Eilean Calbha, Iona - Frances Macdonald , 2025.
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So cute
Can Confirm:
Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. Galaxy Books, 1965. p. 708 footnote
Hemingway has said of Joyce, 'Once in one of those casual conversations you have when you're drinking, Joyce said to me he was afraid his writing was too suburban and maybe he should get around a bit and see the world. He was afraid of some things--lightning and things, but he was a wonderful man. He was under great discipline--his wife, his writing, his bad eyes. His wife was there and she said, yes, his work was too suburban--"Jim could do with a spot of that lion-hunting." We would go out to drink and Joyce would fall into a fight. He couldn't even see the man so he'd say: "Deal with him, Hemingway! Deal with him!"'
Quote from Hemingway's letter to Harriet Weaver, dated May 27, 1929. [Hemingway's] Letters, p. 279
So cute
I just got. The single funniest dm I've ever received in my entire life
Characters in media fighting back against the mind control:
Four Foxes, 1913 by Franz Marc
There's this really obscure forgotten DC hero named the Heckler, who's basically buggs bunny as a superhero, not having any powers or physically strong, but just really good at pissing people off until they accidentally deal with themselves.
Now they're interesting, but the REAL star of the show is one of his villains, John Doe the Generic Man, who's this guy in a stark white suit with flat pink unshaded, untextured skin with no features or anything who talks like chatGPT and has black text over his face that explains what he's feeling at the moment. That guy is fucking fascinating.
I first heard about this guy from the "League of regrettable superheroes" Books, (The supervillain one, obviously) and He stuck with me because its such an interesting concept. not only is HE generic, but he has the power to make anything he TOUCHES generic too. I never actually got to experience his whole deal as an actual character, since this was just an info book that tells you about the character, so seeing these panels it really cool.

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why is this post completely broken in every way imaginable
Broken notes… deactivated account… removed image….
Finally, we have them all.
In addition: OP’s name is just… gone. No “[insert username]-deactivated[insert a bunch of numbers]” as is the standard for deactivated blogs.
Just the world “deactivated.” Look upon their post, ye mighty, and despair.
It’ll be almost impossible to find this post unless it wanders across your dash.
It wandered across mine. I shall help it travel forward.
this is not a place of honor
Oh hey post of Ozymandius, good to see you again standing on your feet in a desert where no one remembers you