Thoughts about the book named "The Borrowers"

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

This is writing about fictional, small size human-style organisms. I mean, that maybe some aliens, what life in other planets would be very small size, and in same time something brought my mind the book, what was read to me at the childhood.  Ata, strange Chilean mummy, brought one book in my mind. The book for children is written by Mary Norton, and its name is "The Borrowers". This is the very nice book for children if you wish to read it, and it would be found in the local library.


The book was published in Great Britain, and it was published in 1952, That is the story about the Clock family, what was consisted of four characters, Pod, Homily, Arrietty and Peagreen Clock, who were the extremely small human style fictional aliens or characters, that was the size of the thumb, what were created by Mary Norton. Those small characters were not stolen people property, they just hide that thing. And I have sometimes thought, that could some strange mummies like Ata made the influence of those characters.


Mary Norton made actually six books, where those small characters are adventuring. and the last one has been written in 1982. These book series were read to me when I was the child, and I sometimes thought that there could be very small, human style intelligent characters somewhere, and there are many myths and legends about "small people", who live somewhere, where light ever is shown.  Those "small people" are in the same category with pixies and gnomes. There are many folk stories about those strange characters, who are sitting on the mushrooms, and in some stories, gnomes would look, when pixies were dancing in the middle of mushroom circles.


Those circles, of course, feed the imagination of the people, because of the mushrooms bought in mind the seats, where some very small character would sit and follow the show. When we are thinking the physical and biological aspect of those mythical characters, we would mention, that the number of the neurons is not made any species intelligent. Another thing what makes species intelligent is the number of connections between those neurons. And of course, the size of neurons is the very remarkable thing. And if the neurons would be the very small size or they could have many connections, would even small size alien or creature be intelligent.


When we are thinking about the number of neurons, what would have very much connections, we must face the truth, that the bugs have very effectively working brains, and they do more things than us by using single neuron. So if those fictional "Borrowers" would have small brain cells and they would be connected same way as the bug's neurons, the result would be the intelligent character. But this is only thoughts about one child's book, what is written the long time ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Borrowers

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