Look at Jill, Jessica, and Matt's blog.
Make displaced fairytale sound like a news report.
Midsummer Nights Dream: "the best in these things are but shadows and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them". It's all in how you imagine it--imagination must go to work on the crude types of romance to amend them (Frye).
Watch "Au Hasard Balthazar" if you get a chance--movie about mistreated donkey, version of Ass story.
Another ongoing list of Peripherals essential to romance:
pits
twins
brother battle
sparagmos (Echo)--the dismemberment of a victim forming a part of some ancient rituals and represented in Greek myths and tragedies
paradox
mirrors
incest
best friend
Harlequin
animal companions
fall
Happy Valentines Day! Celebration of Eros, love between man and woman
Lucius needs to eat roses to transform back to human--the lowly animal who can speak. An aspect of romance...
How can there be redemption for the characters--when bottom gets to top and top to bottom, the paradox.
Read the Pagan Hero, The Christian Saint in The King and The Corpse (same chapter)
If you get a chance read The Myth of the Birth of the Hero by Otto Bank
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