There's nothing seriously underpinning this recovery, and that's why it's Alice in Wongaland, the confidence fairy is out there".
Impossible – absurd – enchantments define fairytale as a form of storytelling, but the magic also gives expression to thought-experiments: the wicked fairy turning out to be capable of love, the Frozen princess thawed into humanity by her heroic sister's staunchness and love.
The attractions make the most of the scenic setting, with a rollercoaster thundering toward the cliff edge, animatronic dinosaurs lurking in the foliage, and fairies hiding out in castles in the woods.
All fairies come out in the Spring.
Or, perhaps it is done, wrote the noted Irish cookbook author Darina Allen, "to let the fairies out".
Even fairy tales turn out to be half manufactured by a commercial enterprise, half risen from the folkish ground.
There's a fairy queen cast out from her realm, amazed at how the world's changed while she's been cloistered away.
She feels like a fickle princess in a fairy tale, trying out all the options — this door, that bed — and detecting flaws in each.
