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Swooop's Viennese Singer/Sir Impey Biggs ficlet is now up. *beams*

Someone found my old Heffalump/Snape wronglet via the snarry_reader.

Linnets and Valerians by Elizabeth Goudge (set in 1912, published in 1964, and illustrated by one Ian Ribbons). Here's Timothy and his Uncle Ambrose discussing a statue of "the Great God Pan":

"Is he the goat in the poetry?"

"What poetry?" asked Uncle Ambrose.

"The poetry you taught us. 'Star of evening, brining all things that bright dawn has scattered, you bring the sheep, you bring the goat, you bring the child back to its mother.'"

Uncle Ambrose looked at Timothy with affection and he said, "He might be. We'll say he is."

"Shall we believe in him?" suggested Timothy.

Uncle Ambrose's eyes twinkled. "That, Timothy," he said, "is a most unsuitable suggestion to make to a clergyman of the Church of England. I am no longer permitted to believe in the ancient gods. You of course can do as you wish."

Timothy, with shining eyes, closed the book. "I wish," he said.