All things are strange which are worth knowing.

Still, she was not sorry. If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.

First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.

Begging your pardon,' groused the Yeti, 'but I believe you haven't the first idea of what's happened to me or the weather in Fairyland or the least fact about the least thing in the known universe. Just my opinion, of course.