| That night I was aboard the Kottur og Stulka preparing lutefisk for 90 burly sailors with fairy tale accents and tattoos of anchors. |
| Think of it as something like a cross between a fairy tale and a magic realist novel. |
| It is a fairy tale with links at various points to The Magic Flute, though there is less knockabout and more gentle humour in Henze's comedy. |
| It's a variation of the Cinderella fairy tale that knows its target audience. |
| As I grew up with an atheistic education, the idea of a fairy tale god never dawned on me. |
| She uses non-realistic devices from fairy tale and a playful allusiveness to other texts in both dialogue and third-person narration. |
