a magic mirror

  Long, long time ago there lived a young girl named Evelin.  Evelin was a brave girl, adventurous, smart, fond of martial and since childhood live alone.  She lived in a small hut in the wilderness.  Her best friwnd was a white horse named Hose.  Hose wasn't ordinary horse, because Hose was a horse be able to speak like a human.

One day, Evelin and Hose went to somewhere for an adventure.  The farther away and the deeper they ventured until they came to a foreign place.  Quiet, dark, and creepy.  It was a strange palace buildings that has not been disturbed by anyone.  The walls of the palace doesn't looked solid again, full plagued by tree roots.  Foreign places like this that Evelin like, because this is where she encountered something new in her life adventures.  Inside the palace, visited the room one by one.  When she arrived in a very dark room which was different from previous chambers, Evelin shocked ehen she lit a torch and saw a giant mirror that almost as big as the wall.  Mirror was full of dust and very outdated.  Evelin who was shocked to saw the giant mirror, without a second thought Evelin immediately called Hose for her soon.  Just like Evelin, Hose was shocked to saw the giant mirror.  Not long after, Evelin think it was like a giant mirror to brough his little hut.  However, as opposed Hose and Evelin would't have been able to brought the giant mirror.

 Night came, Evelin and Hose decided to spent the night in the palace.  Evelin lit a bonfire and prepared a thick coat to slept.  Evelin eventually fell asleep and dreamed.  In the dream, a giant mirror that can spoke like human beings like Hose.  When morning came, Evelin was snapped out of his slept.  She immediately thought of his dream last night, she immediately encountered a giant mirror that regardless of the Hose was still slept.  When she got it in the room, full of curious Evelin by tapping the mirror, but nothing has changed at all.  The mirror remained silent.  Evelin came out of the palace to sought Hose.  Hose and Evelin plan to return.  When the middle of the road Evelin felt exhausted, they rest under an apple tree.  Soon Evelin back asleep and dreamed that the giant mirror calling her to return to the palace.  Evelin awoke and immediately asked Hose that they returned to the palace.  Arriving at the palace, Evelin immediately into the room was a giant mirror.  Mirror was knocked over and over again.  No one moved, no sound.  Evelin upset and sceaming away from the mirror.  But this time something was different that mirror made a sound.  Evelin shocked after hearing the sound of the mirror.  Evelin came back, but the mirror back down and didn't spoke again.

 

Short story, Evelin and Hose return to her small hut with a strange feeling and a little annoyed with what happened on his adventures.  Hose was confused with what happened to Evelin.  Night came again, and that night Evelin didn't want to dream about strange giant mirror.  Evelin didn't want to slept so she wouldn't dream anymore.  But, as the night wore on, finally, Evelin fell asleep and dreamed again.  In the dream, the giant mirror cried and asked Evelin for help to brought the giant mirror to place 'Valley Kalika'.  Evelin awoke and screaming in horror.  Hose who were still asleep participate cried out in shocked.  Before dawn appeared Evelin and Hose decided to go back to the palace to brought the giant mirror to the 'Valley Kalika'.  Although, Evelin didn't know at all about the 'Valley Kalika' it where and how.  Evelin and Hose continued his journey.

When they came to the palace, Evelin quickly tryiing to bring the giant mirror, but Evelin not able to because it was too heavy.  At last with help of Hose, eventually mirror thet can be taken out of the palace.  Arriving outside the palace Evelin back confusion about how to move the mirror to the 'Valley Kalika'.  Then with wood and crude equipment Evelin make carts for transporting the mirror.  Once everyting was finished, Evelin and Hose promptly seek 'Valley Kalika'.  When Evelin asleep somewhere along the way, again, and again she dreamed again.  In the dream, Evelin get directions existence 'Valley Kalika' and just on this day in the 'Valley Kalika' that Evelin had to put a giant mirror it exactly centered dusk to get the reflection of the sun.  Evelin awoke of the dream and told Hose in order to more quickly to the 'Valley Kalika'.  As time passed, they came to the 'Valley Kalika'.  Evelin and Hose immediately pit it right mirror centered dusk.  Instantly get a mirror thet reflected sunlight, the mirrors vibrate, vibrate faster and faster, the mirror was put out tremendous light.  The mirror suddenly changed! and exit the handsome prince that regardless of the devil curse thousands years ago.  Prince was named William.  Prince William came with a full smile for Evelin.  He was very impressed over Evelin beauty, Evelin as did.  They love each other and then they also get married.  They lived happily ever after as they always do in fairy tales.

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from :http://andiniorfw.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-magic-mirror-try-posting-my-narrative.html?m=1

Ferdinand Cheval’s Ideal Palace (Palais idéal

 

Ferdinand Cheval’s Ideal Palace (Palais idéal) stands as a testament that you can achieve anything with time, effort and passion. How else could a simple postman with no formal training, single-handedly build something to the admiration of Picasso, André Breton and André Malraux?

Please enjoy the gallery of photographs below along with a history behind the palace and Mr. Cheval. And if you’re ever in Hauterives, France, make sure to drop by the Ideal Palace!

FERDINAND CHEVAL’S IDEAL PALACE

 
Born in 1836, Cheval lived a long life of respectable poverty, apprenticed first to a baker at age 13 and then entering the postal service in 1867. One day on his route he tripped over a stone, picked it up and was taken aback by its bizarre shape.

From that day forward his 33-year quest to build the Ideal Palace began. He started collecting stones of interest along his route in his pocket. Eventually he upgraded to a bag and ultimately a wheel-barrow that he would trudge along his entire route; to the chagrin and confusion of many.

Once home, he worked on his Ideal Palace tirelessly at night, often by light of an oil lamp. He spent the first 20 years building the outer walls and eventually began the interior and decorative aspects. Nothing was beyond the scope of his own imagination. His version of a Hindu temple stood next to a Swiss chalet which stood next to the Maison Carrée in Algiers which stood next to a medieval castle, and somewhere in between there was an Arab mosque. The tutelary spirits of the place, the facteur declared, were Julius Caesar, Archimedes and Vercingétorix.

The grounds were planted with cacti and palm trees. The end result? a structure 26 meters (85 feet) long and over 10 meters (30+ feet) high. Cheval completed his Ideal Palace in his 70s. He then opened it up to the public for all to enjoy. His wish was to buried in it but was refused permission and eventually set forth on his final project, building an equally complex and magnificent tomb. In 1924 at the age of 88 Ferdinand would take permanent rest there.

In 1969, André Malraux, the Minister of Culture, declared the Palais idéal a cultural landmark and had it officially protected. And in 1986 Cheval was put on a French postage stamp.