Robert of Artoys baniſht though thou be, / From Fraunce thy natiue Country, yet with vs, / Thou ſhalt retayne as great a Seigniorie: / For we create thee Earle of Richmond heere, …

Ed Fargo—now dating my archenemy, megabitch Heather Gannis.

But something is awry; the fairy-stories, the mythologies, are mixed up. Tom is less a masculine Pygmalion caressing his dream-statue into flesh than a feminine Galatea waking to see her lover's face blotting out the sun; less an Oberon than a Titania, falling in love with “the first person he had seen on waking from his drugged sleep”.

… there appears a reference to the body withsaking the devil (G47), a clear indication that there was a time in the life of the body when it was not so thorough a sinner.