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Orwellingly Yurz
SFN Regular
USA
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 Posted - 12/14/2006 : 11:20:18
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YO! Just THIS In...
Ga. Board: Harry Potter Books Can Stay 11:32 AM ET
ATLANTA (AP) -- The Georgia Board of Education voted Thursday to uphold a local school board's decision to leave Harry Potter books on library shelves despite a mother's objections.
Orwellingly Yurz sez: See, momma. All you got to do is make sure YOUR brood doesn't read Harry's adventures. Don't try to diminish other folk's curiosity and desire for reading material just because you don't like it.
Maybe you oughta read Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451," before you try to burn it, lady!
OY!
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Then what must be,
Must be...
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 12/15/2006 : 11:59:18 [Permalink]
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I wonder if they have versions of Cinderella or Snow White in the library. And I wonder if they have the original version of Snow White? That one is even more outrageous as are the original Mother Goose rhymes.
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 12/15/2006 : 21:19:34 [Permalink]
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Sent to OY in a PM but I thought maybe others might want to know what I meant as well.
Little Snow-White, version of 1812 (Germany, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm).
"...The huntsman took Snow-White into the woods. When he took out his hunting knife to stab her, she began to cry, and begged fervently that he might spare her life, promising to run away into the woods and never return. The huntsman took pity on her because she was so beautiful, and he thought, "The wild animals will soon devour her anyway. I'm glad that I don't have to kill her." Just then a young boar came running by. He killed it, cut out its lungs and liver, and took them back to the queen as proof of Snow-White's death. She cooked them with salt and ate them, supposing that she had eaten Snow-White's lungs and liver.....
...The mirror answered:
You, my queen, are fair; it is true.
But the young queen
Is a thousand times fairer than you.
She was horrified to hear this, and so overtaken with fear that she could not say anything. Still, her jealousy drove her to go to the wedding and see the young queen. When she arrived she saw that it was Snow-White. Then they put a pair of iron shoes into the fire until they glowed, and she had to put them on and dance in them. Her feet were terribly burned, and she could not stop until she had danced herself to death." The End.
Cinderella; Germany (Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm)
"Listen," said the mother secretly. "Take this knife, and if the slipper is too tight, just cut off part of your foot. It will hurt a little, but what harm is that? The pain will soon pass, and then one of you will be queen." Then the oldest one went to her bedroom and tried on the slipper. The front of her foot went in, but her heel was too large, so she took the knife and cut part of it off, so she could force her foot into the slipper. Then she went out to the prince, and when he saw that she was wearing the slipper, he said that she was to be his bride. He escorted her to his carriage and was going to drive away with her. When he arrived at the gate, the two pigeons were perched above, and they called out:
Rook di goo, rook di goo!
There's blood in the shoe.
The shoe is too tight,
This bride is not right!
The prince bent over and looked at the slipper. Blood was streaming from it. He saw that he had been deceived, and he took the false bride back. The mother then said to her second daughter, "Take the slipper, and if it is too short for you, then cut off your toes." So she took the slipper into her bedroom, and because her foot was too long, she bit her teeth together, and cut off a large part of her toes, then quickly pulled on the slipper. When she stepped out wearing it, the prince thought that she was the right one, and wanted to ride away with her. But when they came to the gate, the pigeons again called out:
Rook di goo, rook di goo!
There's blood in the shoe.
The shoe is too tight,
This bride is not right!"
I used to think The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe was bad because she whipped the kids every night. Then I read a bit more about some of the other rhymes.
May Mary Quite Contrary
Mary Mary quite contrary,
[The Mary alluded to in this traditional English nursery rhyme is reputed to be Mary Tudor, or Bloody Mary, who was the daughter of King Henry VIII.]
How does your garden grow?
[the garden referred to is an allusion to graveyards which were increasing in size with those who dared to continue to adhere to the Protestant faith - Protestant martyrs.]
With silver bells and cockle shells
[The silver bells and cockle shells referred to in the Nursery Rhyme were colloquialisms for instruments of torture. The 'silver bells' were thumbscrews which crushed the thumb between two hard surfaces by the tightening of a screw. The 'cockleshells' were believed to be instruments of torture which were attached to the genitals!]
And pretty maids all in a row.
[The 'maids' were a device to behead people called the Maiden. Beheading a victim was fraught with problems. It could take up to 11 blows to actually sever the head, the victim often resisted and had to be chased around the scaffold. Margaret Pole (1473 - 1541), Countess of Salisbury did not go willingly to her death and had to be chased and hacked at by the Executioner. These problems led to the invention of a mechanical instrument (now known as the guillotine) called the Maiden - shortened to Maids in the Mary Mary Nursery Rhyme.]
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