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Fairytales. I love them. And this one hits the mark.
Like all fairytales, it's a bit blurry around the edges: You could come up with a thousand questions about the details with no good answers, but the point of fairytales is to agree not to ask. ("What if the glass slipper fit somebody else first?" "...Be quiet.") I think the desperate, yearning, pragmatic mood the writing style creates adds to that blurriness and can occasionally obscure what's actually happening.
But the twelve dancing princess ...more
Like all fairytales, it's a bit blurry around the edges: You could come up with a thousand questions about the details with no good answers, but the point of fairytales is to agree not to ask. ("What if the glass slipper fit somebody else first?" "...Be quiet.") I think the desperate, yearning, pragmatic mood the writing style creates adds to that blurriness and can occasionally obscure what's actually happening.
But the twelve dancing princess ...more
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