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The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 10 Sep 2000
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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.

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