Illustration by H.R. Millar from a 1905 edition of E. Nesbit’s Five Children and It.
Featured on PDR in the essay The Dust That Measures All Our Time
From the mythical Sandman, who participates in dream and vision, to an irritating grain lodged in the beachgoer’s eye, sand harbours unappreciated power, however mundane. Steven Connor celebrates this “most untrustworthy” type of matter.
Also appearing in the essay…
The Sand-Fairy Blew Himself Out
Date
1905
From
Five Children and It
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