Song fragment: Cinderella Stories.

[cadhla]

Here is a song fragment. I like the way it sounds, but I think it's a bridge, not a verse, and I'm not entirely sure what it's about, other than that the POV voice is really remarkably self-confident:

Cinderella stories say

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[tnatj]

Nellie Bly?

[cadhla]

...who?

[tnatj]

Elizabeth Cochran (1864-1922), better known as the New York World investigative reporter, Nellie Bly:

http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/386/nellie.html

[mneme]

AKA Pink in her fictionalized appearances in the Irene Adler novels (by Carol Nelson Douglas).

[ceolyn]

Sarah? But that seems too easy when I think about it.

Who else is living in your head that so strongly identifies with being in one place?

[cadhla]

Pretty sure it's not Sarah; she doesn't really like the person that she is, not until long after she's left the Passage behind her.

People who identify strongly with where they come from/where they live: Sarah, Alice, Toby -- again, self-loathing issues there -- Polymatheia, Melanie. Mmmmmm. To a lesser degree, Judy and Jerry, but theirs is more 'I will always belong somewhere else' than 'I totally belong right here'.

[tibicina]

I could see it being a Melanie song... but you're right that that doesn't quite fit. Could it be one of your 'someone else's character songs'? Maybe Donna.... or.. ummm... hrmm...

[bridgetester]

Alice.

[wcg]

I'll ask Euterpe and Terpsichore to have a frank elderly sister talk with her. Of course there's no guaranteeing they won't take a couple of bottles of Falernian along...

[mpoetess]

I understand that some people have muses that actually communicate with them in a helpful and enlightening manner, rather than dropping notes on torn bar napkins.

Dude, seriously? Who are these people?

[goweli]

I thought it was Alice when I read it.