5. ‘priests routinely identified fairies with demons, devils and witches’. Richard Firth Green (2016), Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Belief and the Medieval Church.
6. ‘bacteria and radiation readings were normal for this material’. Jacques Vallée (2014), Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers, p.35.
7. ‘in the hope of making some sense of them’. Patrick Harpur (2003), Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld, p.268.
8. ‘just a vaguely humanoid flowing mass of soil, rock, and mud’. Simon Young (2018), ‘Fairy Census 2014–2017’.
9. ‘as professionals who need to probe into strangers’ memories (police officers, for example) know all too well.’ See, for example, Giuliana Mazzoni (2003), Si Può Credere a un Testimone? La Testimonianza e le Trappole della Memoria.
10. ‘we have not even a rush candle to guide our steps’. W. B. Yeats (1902), ‘Belief and Unbelief’, in The Celtic Twilight.
11. ‘To this day, she swears that she saw a gnome’. Simon Young, cit., § 18.
The Sixth Key: The Story
1. ‘the most influential writer of the 20th century’. Johann Hari (2003), ‘The Wrong Lord of the Reads’, www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/johann-hari/the-wrong-lord-of-the-reads-82201.html.
2. ‘are confusing, not always by sincere error, the Escape of the Prisoner with the Flight of the Deserter’. J. R. R. Tolkien (2001), Tree and Leaf, pp.60–61.
3. ‘the world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it’. J. R. R. Tolkien, cit.
4. ‘the direction of escape is toward freedom’. Ursula K. Le Guin (2017), No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters.
5. ‘but neither enjoys either temporal or causal precedence’. Arthur W. Frank (2010), Letting Stories Breathe: A Socio-Narratology, loc. 494.
6. ‘he was trim, buff, and handsome’. Grant Morrison (2011), Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero, p.403.
The Seventh Key: Senses of Wonder
1. ‘that went down in history’. Jean Verdon (1999), Il Piacere nel Medioevo, pp.126–131.
2. ‘space of possibility’. Beau Lotto (2017), Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently, p.163.
3. ‘it will adapt to the lack of challenge and let its dull side come out’. Beau Lotto, cit., p.86.
4. ‘as a child or a Martian, both free of habit in this area’. John Armstrong, Alain de Botton (2014), Art as Therapy, pp.59–60.
5. ‘it can seem strange to treat lingering as a virtue’. John Armstrong (2000), The Intimate Philosophy of Art, p.98.
6. ‘two sounds, one high and one low’. Sara Maitland (2009), A Book of Silence: A Journey in Search of the Pleasures and Powers of Silence, p.197.
7. ‘wrote George Orwell’. Cit. in Constance Classen, David Howes, Anthony Synnott (1994), Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell, p.8.
8. ‘by using smell rather than sight’. Charles Foster (2016), Being a Beast: An Intimate and Radical Look at Nature, pp.55–59.
9. ‘a study on smell, Aroma’. Constance Classen et al., cit.
10. ‘Their smell is so sweet that it might cause you to weep tears of joy.’ Constance Classen et al., cit., p.131.
11. ‘about blood and organs, cruelty and decay’. Anthony Bourdain (1999), ‘Don’t Eat Before Reading This’, The New Yorker.
12. ‘taste is largely social’. Diane Ackerman (1995), A Natural History of the Senses, p.127.
13. ‘and so to name and define it’. Alan Watts (1951), The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety, p.92.
14. ‘the brainy modern loves not matter but measures’. A. Watts, cit., p.93.
The Portals
1. ‘they have to start getting prepared to be units of the labour force’. Neil Gaiman, Kazuo Ishiguro (2015), ‘Let’s Talk About Genre: Neil Gaiman and Kazuo Ishiguro in Conversation’, New Statesman.
2. ‘how cleverly they had played’. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ8Kq1wucsk.
3. ‘after one meagre wonder-filled minute’. P. Dietze et al., ‘Awe, the Small Self, and Prosocial Behaviour’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 8, No. 6 (2015).
4. ‘In a state of flow we create our best work.’ Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi (2002), Flow: The Classic Work on How to Achieve Happiness.
5. ‘which she called “grit”’. Angela Duckworth (2016), Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.
6. ‘score a second goal, and England won’. As reported by Alastair Campbell (2015), Winners: And How They Succeed, p.170.
7. ‘how does the other side see their own behaviour?’. Deepak Malhotra (2016), Negotiating the Impossible: How to Break Deadlocks and Resolve Ugly Conflicts Without Money or Muscle, p.126.
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