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**Posted:** Sat Sep 04, 2004 6:16 am

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cruci · Greenhorn Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 3

Re: [WILD SPEC] Perdita's Story

**Posted:** Sat Sep 04, 2004 9:34 am

krystyn

Interesting spec, musictoeat, but I can't quite abide that they'd write such a meta-riffic allegorical when in the same story the SP writes, "This is not a game."

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**Posted:** Sat Sep 04, 2004 10:35 am

MusicToEat · Boot Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 39 Location: Undisclosed

Well, that's the thing, allegory isn't a game. It's a symbolic story. No one would claim that Three Blind Mice is a game, yet it's an allegory about Queen Mary I, who was a staunch Catholic, killing three protestant noblemen.

**Posted:** Sat Sep 04, 2004 2:19 pm

krystyn

I'm still having issues with the meta interp., though. It's obvious these items in her story are symbolic of something. I am just not so sure it's the PMs POV she's espousing, is all.

**Posted:** Sat Sep 04, 2004 9:31 pm

SuperJerms

**Posted:** Sun Sep 05, 2004 1:10 am

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dragongrrl · Boot Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 12

perdita -- a winter's tale

**Posted:** Sun Sep 05, 2004 9:29 am

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cruci · Greenhorn Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 3

**Posted:** Sun Sep 05, 2004 3:16 pm

krystyn

Perdita X was the gutsy alter ego of poor Agnes Nitt when she attempted to break onto the Discworld opera scene in Terry Pratchett's series, too.

I'm leanin' towards the 'lost' definition, though, and I definitely was reminded of Winter's Tale as well. Smile

**Posted:** Mon Sep 06, 2004 3:09 am

jellyfish_green

Re: Uh, what?

**Posted:** Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:21 am

MusicToEat · Boot Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 39 Location: Undisclosed

cruci, that was in reply to krystyn.

You're probably right though. I'm probably way off. It's just that when I read the story, that popped into my head, and it all seemed to fit. In defense of the theory though. Many of the nursey rhymes we know today are actually allogories of the rich and powerful of it's day. You weren't supposed to criticise the royalty, but if someone made up a silly little rhyme it would pass unnoticed. So, if the PMs are not supposed to get meta then the best place to do it would be an allegorical story. It would actually be upholding the traditions of all those old nursery rhymes they are drawing inspiration from.

**Posted:** Mon Sep 06, 2004 9:32 pm

Kender

Clockwork rat

**Posted:** Fri Sep 10, 2004 3:43 am