Tag Archives: ariel

Dinosaurs and Dragons

Posted on January 31, 2025 by Nathan

Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time, by James Gurney – I seem to remember reading something about this book around when it first came out in the early nineties, in National Geographic or something. I was interested, but I didn’t … Continue reading →

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Psychics, Psychologists, and Gynecologists

Posted on June 23, 2024 by Nathan

WARNING! SPOILERS! Don’t Look Now – This movie starts with a girl drowning when she goes into a pond after a ball. Children in movies really need to stop chasing after objects, although I guess you can also meet frog princes that way. That’s … Continue reading →

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Ariel View

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Nathan

I’ve looked at quite a bit of fairy lore over the years, but one character I hadn’t really addressed is Ariel from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, largely because I hadn’t read it. I recently did so, and I also found out that … Continue reading →

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Where There’s a Will, There’s a Wisp

Posted on March 25, 2020 by Nathan

The term “Will o’ the Wisp” refers to a sort of light that appears over swamps and marshes, caused by photon emissions from gases. Or at least that’s the scientific explanation. There’s a lot of folklore devoted to these weird … Continue reading →

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I Want to Be Where the People Are

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Nathan

The Little Mermaid – Disney’s twenty-eighth animated feature is loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, but takes a lot of liberties with its source material. This is typical for Disney, of course, but in this particular case it’s … Continue reading →

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