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For next meeting: read "Slippers" from The King and The Corpse

Why can't we just read and enjoy stories? (instead of talk them to death, apply literary criticism, etc). Why study fairy tales?
pg 86-88 Haroun: The Plentimaw Fishes--stories undergo transformation, creation and recreation. There is no one essential story.
Do stories necessarily have to make you virtuous/include morals? Storytelling to children...You do not "be" naive, you achieve naivete.
Primary children's stories: Peter Pan, Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland
Oz: on the journey, necessity of completing series of tasks before the one thing Dorthy wants: to go home.

pg 87 Haroun: echoes of Kubla Khan "buildings with roofs...important buildings in Gup"
pg 200: The Walrus "You've been on a great adventure..."

Theosophist: religion where a knowledge of God may be achieved through spiritual ecstasy, direct intuition, or special individual relations (Dorothy already has power inside her to go home)
Sparagmos: the dismemberment of a victim, forming a part of some ancient rituals and represented in Greek myths and tragedies

Life does not end happily--ends in one way.
Less pure than when you were six and wanted the dualism (good/evil)
pg 134 Frye: "the conventional happy ending..."

MIDTERM: displace a fairy tale--tell it as a real life story.
All the stories you think are new are not.
Ephesian Tale: sentimental vs inexperienced storyteller (sentimental is aware of the conventions, doesn't tell stories that seem to come from nowhere)