Almost Genius: The Cardboard Box That Fits Anything Perfectly | Fast Company (via lkm) From Ella Enchanted (by Gail Carson Levine): Although we didn’t invite Lucinda, she arrived anyway—with a gift. “No need,” Char and I chimed together. “Remember when you were a squirrel,” Mandy said.       But the gift was what Father would have called a fairy trifle. It was a box, no larger than my thumbnail, which grew or shrank to accommodate whatever it was called upon to hold. Wonderfully useful and not harmful at all. In Ella, Lucinda is a crazy fairy prone to handing out ill-advised “gifts;” obedience, squirrel-dom, etc. (until she learns better). The magic fit-anything box is, in Levine’s fairy world, an example of an acceptable application of fairy magic, because it cannot have wide-ranging and unpredictable side effects. Click for high-res image

 Almost Genius: The Cardboard Box That Fits Anything Perfectly | Fast Company (via lkm)

From Ella Enchanted (by Gail Carson Levine):

Although we didn’t invite Lucinda, she arrived anyway—with a gift.

“No need,” Char and I chimed together.

“Remember when you were a squirrel,” Mandy said.

      But the gift was what Father would have called a fairy trifle. It was a box, no larger than my thumbnail, which grew or shrank to accommodate whatever it was called upon to hold. Wonderfully useful and not harmful at all.

In Ella, Lucinda is a crazy fairy prone to handing out ill-advised “gifts;” obedience, squirrel-dom, etc. (until she learns better). The magic fit-anything box is, in Levine’s fairy world, an example of an acceptable application of fairy magic, because it cannot have wide-ranging and unpredictable side effects.

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