whole story of the sword in the stone, and what came after. The actors were formidable and stagey, in the style of the time. Ariel recognized the pattern of his life. In the character of the fated child (a girl, in this rendering) he saw himself, and when she pulled the sword from the stone, he saw the way it could have gone. Part of him screamed with regret, but another part acknowledged the wider context: that he was watching this movie while lying on his belly alongside a girl he had called down from space. He felt that, lying here, he was in the correct story, even if he did not know where
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