Once we have accepted the story, we cannot escape the story's fate.

P.L. Travers

Tags: fairytales sleeping-beauty briar-rose

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Consider
a girl who keeps slipping off,
arms limp as old carrots,
into the hypnotist's trance,
into a spirit world
speaking with the gift of tongues.

Anne Sexton

Tags: fairy-tale hypnosis sleeping-beauty briar-rose

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She married the prince
and all went well
except for the fear —
the fear of sleep.

Briar Rose
was an insomniac...
She could not nap
or lie in sleep
without the court chemist
mixing her some knock-out drops
and never in the prince's presence.

Anne Sexton

Tags: insomnia sleeping-beauty briar-rose

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