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| Re: Never Promise Anything for the Day after Your Birthday [message #46299 is a reply to message #46297 ] |
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EMoon
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I have friends--intelligent people--who keep wanting me to appreciate anime. I keep sneaking back to representational art, music that doesn't hurt my ears, and books with no pictures of the anime/manga variety.
Am still mulling over the peculiarly mixed voice lesson I had Wednesday, which may require writing our Hellgoddess a long email.
Forgetting things...yes, I do. I blame politicians and bankers. That's a safe bet right now. Though today the kitchen scissors I couldn't remember where it's put turned out to have been moved by Richard.
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| Re: Never Promise Anything for the Day after Your Birthday [message #46323 is a reply to message #46297 ] |
Fri, 18 November 2011 21:42 |
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I'm rather curious which anime this was -- I'm fond of anime generally, but there's quite a wide range of types, as the Japanese approach it as just another medium, like, say, "Film" instead of "Kids' Stuff" as we in the US tend to view animation. I don't recognize this particular one from the description, but that's not much of a surprise since it doesn't sound terribly appealing to me, either.
I third the Miyazaki endorsement. My particular favorite, hm, hard to pick. Either "Porco Rosso" -- the story of an Italian biplane ace, who for some inexplicable reason has been cursed to have the head of a pig, though this actually is quite peripheral to the story -- or "My Neighbor Totoro", which recently held a room full of college kids (yes, quite a number of them male) absolutely spellbound, despite being a slow and sweet story about two young girls moving into a new house and their encounters with the woodland spirits and beings in the forest nearby.
...."Beings" seems a bit generic of a term, but just how DOES one describe a Catbus?
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| Re: Never Promise Anything for the Day after Your Birthday [message #46324 is a reply to message #46319 ] |
Fri, 18 November 2011 21:52 |
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| Corellia wrote on Sat, 19 November 2011 01:05 |
I've heard a much sweeter version of the king Henry story, with no murdering of pets.
It's set to king Arthur's time. One of the knights of the round table has to marry this really ugly old lady (can't quite remember why). It turns out that after the sun goes down, she changes into a lovely young lady, and she tells him he gets to choose if she is going to be lovely during the day, or during the night. At first he wants the lovely girl all for himself (ie so they can do the hanky panky at night), but she objects and says she is going to be the laughingstock of all the court if she's ugly during the day. After some further indecision on the part of the knight, he says he will leave the decision to her. Because he gives her the right to choose, it breaks her enchantment, and she becomes beautiful ever after.
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Sir Gawain? Or am I misremembering things? (Entirely possible, that...  )
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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| Re: Never Promise Anything for the Day after Your Birthday [message #46325 is a reply to message #46324 ] |
Sat, 19 November 2011 01:20 |
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| L.R.K. wrote on Fri, 18 November 2011 20:52 |
| Corellia wrote on Sat, 19 November 2011 01:05 |
I've heard a much sweeter version of the king Henry story, with no murdering of pets.
It's set to king Arthur's time. One of the knights of the round table has to marry this really ugly old lady (can't quite remember why). It turns out that after the sun goes down, she changes into a lovely young lady, and she tells him he gets to choose if she is going to be lovely during the day, or during the night. At first he wants the lovely girl all for himself (ie so they can do the hanky panky at night), but she objects and says she is going to be the laughingstock of all the court if she's ugly during the day. After some further indecision on the part of the knight, he says he will leave the decision to her. Because he gives her the right to choose, it breaks her enchantment, and she becomes beautiful ever after.
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Sir Gawain? Or am I misremembering things? (Entirely possible, that... )
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This version of the loathly lady story is much closer to The Wife of Bath's Tale. The lady in Sir Gawain is the Green Knight's wife.
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: Never Promise Anything for the Day after Your Birthday [message #46330 is a reply to message #46325 ] |
Sat, 19 November 2011 11:52 |
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L.R.K.
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| Diane in MN wrote on Sat, 19 November 2011 07:20 |
| L.R.K. wrote on Fri, 18 November 2011 20:52 |
| Corellia wrote on Sat, 19 November 2011 01:05 |
I've heard a much sweeter version of the king Henry story, with no murdering of pets.
It's set to king Arthur's time. One of the knights of the round table has to marry this really ugly old lady (can't quite remember why). It turns out that after the sun goes down, she changes into a lovely young lady, and she tells him he gets to choose if she is going to be lovely during the day, or during the night. At first he wants the lovely girl all for himself (ie so they can do the hanky panky at night), but she objects and says she is going to be the laughingstock of all the court if she's ugly during the day. After some further indecision on the part of the knight, he says he will leave the decision to her. Because he gives her the right to choose, it breaks her enchantment, and she becomes beautiful ever after.
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Sir Gawain? Or am I misremembering things? (Entirely possible, that... )
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This version of the loathly lady story is much closer to The Wife of Bath's Tale. The lady in Sir Gawain is the Green Knight's wife.
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I was thinking of the version in Howard Pyle, I believe - but that may not be the correct one obviously. (I know he changed some other things too - I rather enjoy them, though; and love his illustrations - they just feel... "right" somehow.) And even so, I may be misremembering which knight it was...
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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| Re: Never Promise Anything for the Day after Your Birthday [message #46331 is a reply to message #46330 ] |
Sat, 19 November 2011 13:29 |
roisindubh211
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| L.R.K. wrote on Sat, 19 November 2011 11:52 |
| Diane in MN wrote on Sat, 19 November 2011 07:20 |
| L.R.K. wrote on Fri, 18 November 2011 20:52 |
| Corellia wrote on Sat, 19 November 2011 01:05 |
I've heard a much sweeter version of the king Henry story, with no murdering of pets.
It's set to king Arthur's time. One of the knights of the round table has to marry this really ugly old lady (can't quite remember why). It turns out that after the sun goes down, she changes into a lovely young lady, and she tells him he gets to choose if she is going to be lovely during the day, or during the night. At first he wants the lovely girl all for himself (ie so they can do the hanky panky at night), but she objects and says she is going to be the laughingstock of all the court if she's ugly during the day. After some further indecision on the part of the knight, he says he will leave the decision to her. Because he gives her the right to choose, it breaks her enchantment, and she becomes beautiful ever after.
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Sir Gawain? Or am I misremembering things? (Entirely possible, that... )
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This version of the loathly lady story is much closer to The Wife of Bath's Tale. The lady in Sir Gawain is the Green Knight's wife.
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I was thinking of the version in Howard Pyle, I believe - but that may not be the correct one obviously. (I know he changed some other things too - I rather enjoy them, though; and love his illustrations - they just feel... "right" somehow.) And even so, I may be misremembering which knight it was...
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You are remembering correctly, this is also a Gawain story ("The Marriage of Sir Gawain"), a different one than "Gawain and the Green Knight". There was a giant harassing Arthur's kingdom, either killing subjects or beating up knights with no effort. He poses Arthur the riddle "What do women want?"- if the king can solve it, said giant will bugger off and leave everyone alone. So they hunt and get a million different answers, till he finds the hideous lady, who says she is the giant's sister and therefore knows the correct answer. She'll only give it if one of the knights of the Round Table promises to marry her, and Gawain steps up to the plate. The rest goes as you described it.
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