He disowns me, and he scorns me / But when we're alone he tells me I'm his very own

Although Brogan sees the history as a “medley of fiction and wishful thinking,” he is deeply impressed with Tocqueville’s pioneering use of local archives, which allowed him to lay out the continuity between prerevolutionary and postrevolutionary France.

Peace reigns in happy Luxor. The lion lies down with the lamb, and the child, if it will, may harmlessly put its hand into the cockatrice’s den.

Sterling echoes this. “The word magical is so corny, especially in a Disney context, but it truly is magical that I have these lifelong friends just because people love Disney,” she says. “The power of fandom is really, super-overwhelmingly emotional for me. I don’t know what my life making Disney content and participating in fan culture would be like without [Mink].”