  As a child, urlLink Beauty and the Beast was my favorite fairy tale. I read every version of it I could find. I'm delighted to find this version by j.m. kearns. The narrator is a little preachy, but then there are lines like this: That night Belle dreamt she saw the princely Beast in the garden by the fountain. "See, your strength, my Belle rose, my Beauty, that I value you beyond anything in the universe," he said, placing his head on her knees that she may pet it. They sat there, like that, a long time, while Belle plaited a beautiful wreath of flowers to drape about his neck.
Also included is the urlLink commentary . The first paragraph perfectly describes my Master: "Beauty and the Beast" is another tale in which we have a shape-shifter, the man-beast who is loved and tempered by the feminine.
At times, the Beast seems a version of the four archangels with his similitude to several different animals, so that one glimpses not only the taming of some harsher element of man, but also of a demanding god; or even, perhaps, the tale depicts that higher "other" reaching to become known in a form which is not what has been imagined, one different from the cruel and sadistic ruler of wishes and riches who demands sacrifice over the smallest offense or infringement. Beauty and the Beast is simply a modern retelling of urlLink Cupid and Psyche , which is also special to Us. Katy 
