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Phantastes seems to fit Sorcerer's House in some ways too.<br>
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right from the synopsis I just glanced at, ghost of the
librarian as a raven, life, death, salvation, sleeping until
the end of the world, finding true life in death ... Sounds
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On Jan 5, 2014, at 6:33 PM, "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <<a
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obvious MacDonald conneciton would be with LILITH.</span></font></div>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Well,
as we all know, Peace references Lang's Green
Fairy Book, Ludwig's biography of Napoleon,
some of the fictional literature mentioned in
Lovecraft like the Cultes des Goules, the
Necronomicon, and Marvells of Science (Ambrose
Bierce is involved there, too). There is an
additional mention of the tales of George
MacDonald near Lang's book, and even though I
am thorough, I wasn't about to read the
collected works of MacDonald before finishing
my Peace write up. So the decision was to
look over the more famous work and see if
anything resonated. </span></font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><span
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background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Maybe
Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and
Women does just a bit - it begins on the
hero's 21st birthday when his room becomes a
natural wood and he crosses into Fairy Land,
and he is warned that the Ash Tree and the
Alder Tree spirits seek to destroy him,
spirits which can leave their trees.
Interestingly enough, the Ash tree is in the
Olive tree family, and the Alder Tree is
related to the elm. He finds a statue by
Pygmalion which flees from him, and
eventually, he dies in fairy land to wake back
up into the real world, thinking that he had
been there 21 years when it was only 21 days.
While birthdays, deaths, and living statues
are not necessarily anything unusual in
fantasy, I felt that perhaps there was some,
at the very least, riffing on some of these
themes, what with the two trees in front of
Mr. Tilly's house, a man becoming a living
statue, though these are not precise linkages.</span></font></div>
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Princess and the Goblin didn't seem to fit too
well thematically, save for the old "who will
the princess marry?" connection - but that
could be about half of all pre 20th century
literature.</span></font></div>
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