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From: "Dan'l Danehy Oakes" <DDANEHYO@us.oracle.com>
Subject: (urth) Three Fingers
Date: 15 Jun 98 14:56:28
> > First and foremost, what on earth gives you the eyedea that they're
> > _pretending_?
> "Captain Hook" tells Michael he will be suffocated with the bonbons, but
> Michael has no trouble swallowing the bonbon, and the "Wicked Queen's"
> final remark shows that that's what's supposed to happen.
H'mmmm. I'll have to look at this again. I'm probably just plain
wrong here. But see below:
> > And, similarly, the knowtion that they're "dressed up"
> > as Disney characters?
> Because they remove their masks, and are revealed to be
> "paunchy [men/women] in a business suit." This is all plainly
> depicted in the story; unless you've misremembered the ending,
> I'm missing your point.
My point (all together now: "And I do have a point") was,
simply, that those suits _were_ the Queen, Captain, and Wolf,
or, perhaps, their instantiations in this-world.
Making that assumption, then, the failure of the bonbon to
accomplish its intended task makes sense; the Bad Guys hatch
marvellous plots, but they never seem to work out. (The
application of this to Wolfe's moral conceptions is left as an
exercise for the alert reader.)
> (I'm tempted to make a joke about how I would rather have
> Captain Hook et al. after me than Disney's lawyers, but I'll
> refrain.)
Well, it's worth noting that none of Disney's villains ever seem
to accomplish much of anything -- as opposed to the aforesaid
attorneys...
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