(And some days it takes more Stones than others...) Where Mythical Bestiary meets Contemporary Culture and Chews On Its Leg Until Covered with Slobber.
[Rapunzel] "begins with two intense cravings: that of a pregnant woman for a plant that grows in a garden next door, and that of a witch for a girl child..."
-- essay by Alison Lurie on the archetypes running around in the fairy tale at The New York Review of Books
Good review. Also the theme of an adoptive parent not wanting the child to grow up and/or leave them. Hmm! Have several cases of that here....
ReplyDeleteSmile, Dee Ann