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Message: <blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 4614738" data-attributes="member: 11">RougeRogue,So I read the article about "The Wish" and "Dopplegangland" - great stuff!  I need to look at it again, b/c in the intervening time my home computer died and I was dealing with stuff like finishing my thesis and entering grades for my class, etc. . .  But there were things I wanted to directly address that now escape me (though perhaps there might be a better forum for this discussion). However, two things I do recall is, 1) you have the academic voice down, which is simultaneously impressive and off-putting.  Personally, I do my best to avoid writing that way - though it might just be that I am incapable of it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  And 2) I would have spent more time "with the text" so to speak - examining specific scenes and/or pieces of dialogue in detailed ways to explore some of the ideas in your essay.I shall take a look again and this time make some notes.  Of course, the things that stick out to me now are things that I am critical of, when while I was reading it there was plenty I liked - I am such a negative nelly! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />On a slightly related note, over the weekend I caught most of Dragonslayer (remember the old Disney film?) and realized that I must write a paper about the queer aspects of the film, what with the romance between the androgynous Peter MacNicol and the boyish girl pretending to be a girlish boy to avoid the lottery to be sacrificed to the dragon.  I love anything with confused and slipping gender roles.</blockquote>

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