I'm reminded of a wonderful line from one of Laurie Anderson's albums:

Hansel and Gretel are alive and well,
And living in Berlin.
She is a cocktail waitress
He has a part in a Fassbinder film
And every evening about nine o'clock
Sipping his schnapps and gin
He says, "Gretl, you can really be a bitch...
"I've wasted my life on our stupid legend
"When my one and only love
"Was the Wicked Witch .... "

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