My Favorite Fantasy Story - читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги автора Martin H. Greenberg (ч. notes)

Примечания

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'And more' Ingelow's own verses head chapters 1,3,4,6,8,9,12 and 16

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albatross sea-bird associated with the imagination ever since Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (1798)

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Will-o'-the-wisp See note 17

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gannets northern sea birds

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flamingoes Carroll's Alice used flamingoes as mallets in the croquet game in which soldiers formed arches

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panniers carrying baskets placed on horses or mules

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water-snake cf. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." lines 272-73

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Othello II.iv.62-66

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turnip The baby whom the duchess flings with similar abandon in Alice in Wonderland also turns out to be no real child.

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haycock See note 6

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Clough from Clough's Dipsychus, act 1, scene iv

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The Tempest III.ii.144-45

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and so for another day The apple-woman's rationale for not wanting to return to her human world bears comparing with the reasons adduced by the captive slave woman in Ewing's "Amelia and the Dwarfs."

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But Fate reigns here. The words "fay" and "fairy" actually do derive from the Latin fata or fate, a connection Ingelow will exploit in her later characterization of old Mother Fate and her daughters.

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Guelder rose tree white-flowered bush, also called "snowball"

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Craken The sea-monster of Scandinavian mythology was the subject of Tennyson's short poem "The Kraken" (1830).

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Laverock in the Lift Sky-larks (known as "lavericks" in the North) are noted for their airy acrobatic lifts.

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rasped rolls breakfast buns with a rough exterior

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As You Like it II.iv.15-18

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costs him all Orpheus, the son of a Muse, managed to rescue his wife Eurydice through the power of his lyre, but lost her by looking back at Hades before they had reached the safety of the upper world.

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wedding feast Jack fails to see that the "ridiculous" song is directed at himself; the nursery rhyme is intended to remind Jack of "Jenny," the name he is trying to repress, and to prepare him for his displacement.