ATHENA AT REST
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“...In God's kingdom the presence of the greatest does not depress the small...Story, fantasy, still go on, and should go on. The Evangelium has not abrogated legends; it has hallowed them, especially the “happy ending.” ...All tales may come true; and yet, at the last, redeemed, they may be as like and as unlike the forms that we give them as Man, finally redeemed, will be like and unlike the fallen that we know. “
-J.R.R. Tolkien, “On Fairy Stories.”