Major new Wolfe story online

Adam Stephanides · 07 May 2002, 21:17 · from urth-v0205.mbox · original

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From: Adam Stephanides <adamsteph at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) Major new Wolfe story online
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 16:17:16 -0500
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So Wolfe is a Kai Lung fan.  I had no idea.

I've seen the "princess on a glass mountain" motif twice before: in a novel
called THE GLASS MOUNTAIN by Leonard Wolf, which I haven't read, and in a
Fractured Fairy Tale (in which the rescuer was a giant frog).  Given this,
I'd expect that it occurs in some genuine fairy tale or medieval romance,
but nothing comes to mind.

Like hartshorn, I didn't see any hidden depths to the story, at least on
first reading.

--Adam

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