# Digest urth.v029.n061 *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 10 Sep 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. --- ### Peter Stephenson *10 Sep 2000, 21:20* Adam Stephanides wrote > Subject: Re: (urth) Mopsa the Fairy > > And I must admit that after a single reading of "Mopsa," I don't know > what it is about the fairy princess in this story that makes Wolfe > regard her as realer than any other fairy princess. I haven't read the story, but I can't resist pointing out that the two shepherdesses in the sheep-shearing scene in A Winter's Tale are called Mopsa and Dorcas. corncrake. ``` Peter Stephenson Work: pws at csr.com Web: http://www.pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk ``` ---