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As the Major-General ruefully admitted in a delightful scene in Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance” (Act 1, Final Scene) he was not an orphan at all, not “orfen,” not ever. But in pretending to be an orphan he had saved his life by telling a “regular terrible story” to the pirates (Gilbert and Sullivan, 1994).
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Meyers, W.R. (2015). An Adventure in Narrative Analysis: “A Regular Terrible Story”. In: Social Science Methods for Psychodynamic Inquiry. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137524904_7
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