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fables for deconstruction

Færie tales, annotated with anchored-link notes, as well as the public domain Project Gutenberg texts at SurLaLune. (via slinka)

This came as the result of JP pointing out to me that I don’t know the difference between Fates, Furies, and the Triple Goddess. I can’t recall offhand if Gaiman had the same mixed up problem, if it was another author who combined them, if it was my own muddled mind, or god help me, it might have been Clash of the Titans. I had several of the action figures for that, you know...

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