A bedtime story exchange:
No Good Boyo: So Dorothy and her little dog ran back to the farmhouse to escape from the tornado. And what was Dorothy's little dog called?
Arianrhod, our daughter: Cerberus.
Corrects all the false impressions on which my partner bases his "life".
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This either scares the life out of me, or gives me hope for Britain's literary future - I haven't quite made my mind up yet.
It is a lesson in what happens when you entrust your child's education to father with a taste for the Classick and the Gothick.
Be afraid.
My own Djangolina much prefers Greek mythology to the works of L. Frank Baum. She has also enjoyed Das Ring der Nibelungen as a bedtime story.
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