# PEACE princess monster *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 30 Oct 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 Andre-Driussi *30 Oct 2000, 07:57* As I was writing before about the princess bride-monster, there was a name on the tip of my tongue, and I couldn't remember what it was until I found my copy of A.S. Byatt's POSSESSION. "Melusina" is her name. Daughter of the king of Ys. I'm not saying that "The Princess and Her Four Suitors" is based upon Melusina; I'm just saying that in my view of the Princess as monster, she is something like Melusina. =mantis= ---