Mary Catelli's Erraticly Updated and Exceedingly Ill-Organized Journal

A sweet little visit to the heroine's home -- her and her betrothed husband -- acquires a twist when I have the betrothed, a prince, explain to the heroine how to set the protection charms about the chamber while she sleeps.
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Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? — J. R. R. Tolkien

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Something I've been pondering ever since I ran across an astute observation about Kafka's "Metamorphosis":  it's not really a fantasy story, because in a fantasy story the writer would at least have touched on the issue of -- what does it feel like to be a bug?  But in "Metamorphosis" being a bug is just a way of not being human.  You don't get things like the scene in Poul Anderson's Operation Chaos where the narrator talks about how things are different, being a wolf, and concludes that some psychologists have treated mental illness by turning people to animals for a time -- and it convinces you.  You don't even get something like A Wizard of Earthsea where Ged, turned into a bird, can fly.

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