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Conversations: Can You Smell the God In the Air?! Epiphanies in Antiquity w/ Gillian Glass

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

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Cinderella Is Not Going to Go to the Ball

i gave a talk many, many years ago at this point where i actually started with a reference to disney's cinderella. Because when cinderella is in the courtyard crying ecause her dress has been torn, and her stepmother has said, you can't go to the ball,. we see her crying. But then the music changes, the light changes, and then out of nowhere, somebody appears. And so we can see that it's not just any old dress. It is a magic dress. The scene goes from being entirely dark to having these pricks of bubble light that show up on the screen. Even though we don't know what's going to happen, although

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