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This thread is for comments about Soul Searching, by Tim Pratt.
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Auros
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Reged: Oct 15 2003
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I'm wondering whether Tim was a fan of Jim Henson's The Storyteller -- one of the episodes, "The Heartless Giant", involves a giant who hid his heart in an egg (which is in turn in a duck, etc)...
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R Michael "Auros" Harman
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Tim Pratt
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No, I never saw it. The old soul-in-an-egg trick pops up a lot in myth and legend, and I read quite a few variants of such stories a few months ago. There's a companion piece to this poem, a story called "Life in Stone", appearing online at the new 'zine Lenox Ave. in a few months, taking on the same subject from a different perspective.
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Auros
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I figured, since Henson obviously got it out of folktale material, it could easily have been encountered elsewhere... But it seemed like the sort of thing you might've seen. The full series is out on DVD now, incidentally...
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R Michael "Auros" Harman
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