Recreating The Past

Recreating The Past:  British History and the Victorian Painter by Roy Strong

Covers a number of varied topics on the subject matter.

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philosophical speculation on telling it again

As some of you might conceivably have deduced, I liked Tangled.  I still flinched on the scenes about Rapunzel's birth -- ouch, ouch, ouch, this isn't Rapunzel!

Which inspires speculation about what it takes to retell a story and if there are any real rules besides the obvious and unhelpful one of if you do it badly, it will turn out bad.

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