# Three Fingers *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 17 Apr 2000* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Michael Straight *17 Apr 2000, 10:50* I initially thought Wolfe had a cool idea here, pointing out the irony of Disney vigorously protecting the rights to characters that they've swiped from better sources and humanity's common story-telling tradition. But then I'm led to ask that if Captain Hook is just a watered-down version of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd and Barbarosa, then shouldn't the hero of this story be someone who is a dealer in Blackbeard stories and Captain Kidd paraphernalia? Or conversely, if Mickey Mouse and Snow White are sufficiently distinguished from their literary ancestors to be worth stealing, it's a little less ironic when Disney objects to the theft. I enjoy the ending more if I read it as Wolfe wanting us to imagine that the "it's all just an insane hallucination" bit was tacked on by the editor to avoid trouble from Disney's lawyers. -Rostrum ---