Pupil-less, stared at him 'You!' it seemed to command Of white mist thinned and rolled back, and the eye, clear, blue and 'Electrified, he saw one cloud open an eye and look at him. What looks to him like an eye in the sky and knows himself to be chosen: Singularity when, in an early scene at the side of a pool, he gazes at (4)) Tycho is both confirmed in and reassured about his Hair' that lies on his forehead 'limp and soft as whiteįeathers'. was subnormal', partly because he 'looked as if cameįrom another planet'. That, as he explains to his friend Angela, 'people used to think Tycho's appearance as a young child was such Strikingly Christ-like of Mahy's heroes is Tycho in Catalogue of Most if not all of Mahy's fictions invite analysis as Subject) his fortunes suffer an eclipse, but he is vindicatedĪnd raised up and recognised for what he really is. Romance (there is a good book by Northrop Frye on this From the beginning, we know that Christ is the Possible truth, it has the structure of a certain sort of Vonnegut points out that this is one of the features of theĬhristian account. Literature of what she referred to as 'certain ideas':Ĭertain ideas are more successful than others. (1) Mahy's reply centred on the permanence in Interviewing Margaret Mahy in 1987, Murray Edmond asked her toĬomment on 'the importance of the use of genre in APA style: 'It begins with the tale of a garden': The Biblical Resonance of Margaret Mahy's The Tricksters.'It begins with the tale of a garden': The Biblical Resonance of Margaret Mahy's The Tricksters.' Retrieved from

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