SUBVERSION IN ANDERSEN'S SNOW QUEEN
Fairytale Subversion: Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen”By the time he sat down to pen “The Snow Queen” in the early 1840s, Hans Christian Andersen had already published two collections of...
View ArticleNEW SOURCES - DISCIPULUS
[···] a la costa de Efeso, cerca de la residencia de un famoso médico, que lo encuentra mientras paseaba con sus discípulos por la orilla del mar. Uno de los discípulos logra volver a la vida a la...
View ArticleWHAT LITTLE SANDRA READ - PART ONE
WHAT LITTLE SANDRA READPART ONE - Sandra at Six(later on, Sandra at Twelve and Sandra at Eighteen will be added, to reflect on which new things I discovered when it comes to literature)These is the...
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TRAFALGAR IN MEMORIAM 2016
So I found the Battle of Trafalgar retold in a Shakespearean style in The Dynasts, an epic narrative poem written by a descendant of the self-same Hardy who gave Lord Nelson the last kiss, and I said...
View ArticleA LÉGPÁRNÁSOM TELE VAN ANGOLNÁKKAL
A légpárnásom tele van angolnákkal.(ah LEHG-par-NA-shom TE-le vahn AHN-gol-NAK-kahl)That is Hungarian for "My hovercraft is full of eels".I have posted this sentence and its pronunciation only so you,...
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BJÖRN BORG / EAU DE DALÍ
I once had these eccentric Swedish perfume bottles 'cause Grandad Lars, bless his soul, worked for Astor... aren't they original?
View ArticleOTHELLO: MARY MACLEOD (and rare Castilian translation)
Here, I will post first the original story retold by Mary Macleod:HONEST IAGOBRAVE, generous, of a free and open nature, Othello the Moor had won high honour in the state of Venice, for, although dark...
View ArticleSTOP THE PLANET OF THE APES
STOP THE PLANET OF THE APES(I WANT TO GET OFF!)(Starring Troy MacClure)I just said to myself one day not long ago... "I have to post the lyrics to this musical theatre parody (the first of its kind in...
View ArticleKATE PINKERTON: LACOMBE STYLE
The "another woman" in Puccini's geisha opera had been a non-entity to me... until Benjamin Lacombe reimagined her, from her lieutenant husband's first-person POV, as an extraverted and fiery...
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LE CHEVALIER ET LA DAMOISELLE
(This is my own translation; not directly from the French original, but from the Catalan and Castilian)Marie Diaz(La Reine des Neiges)QUATRIÈME HISTOIRELe Chevalier et la DamoiselleMiss Clara's...
View ArticleKICKIN' IT
This post is a sequel to "Stop the Planet of the Apes", which I published earlier this month.In said post, I broke the ice with the following intro:I just said to myself one day not long ago... "I have...
View ArticleHÄR KOMMER SNOPPEN I FULL GALOPP
Larvae of all stages, ( Larvae Children of all stages! ages!) from the Betty Ford Centre in L.A., California... we go right back to Sweden and to the viral sex-ed video that shows kawaii willies and...
View Article"LARVAE OF ALL STAGES" EXPLAINED
All right, larvae of all stages, if you may have been a tad offended by the address I have given you dear readers when I refer to you... is actually one of the quotes that shaped my childhood, a Pixar...
View ArticleUN PETIT D'UN PETIT
Un petit d'un petits'étonne aux HallesUn petit d'un petitAh! degrés te fallentIndolent qui ne sort cesseindolent qui ne se mèneQu'importe un petittout gay de Reguennes.Phonetically, this French poem is...
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TSQ-IV: DIANE CLÉMENT, 2014
Quatrième histoireLE PRINCEET LA PRINCESSELa princesse de ce pays est d'une intelligence extraordinaire. Un jour, alors qu'elle était assise sur son trône, une chanson lui trotta dans la tête.Le...
View ArticleEURIALO E NISO
Remember Euryalus and Nisus, the Virgilian queeromance that inspired the story of Renly Baratheon and Loras Tyrell?Well, an Italian songwriter retold their star-crossed tale as that of two freedom...
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SAMHAIN 2016: KARIN T. THREE NIGHTS TALE
"All right, let us begin! And, when our story has come to an end, we shall know so much more than we already know!"THE SNOW QUEEN. H.C. ANDERSEN.FRAGMENTS FROM "UNDERGROUND", BY KARIN TIDBECKThe...
View ArticleGERDA: A HEROINE'S JOURNEY
The hero's journey or monomyth of Campbellian fame can also be applied here... for instance, I give you the Snow Queen story as a perfect example: The Ordinary World: Gerda and Kai in their quaint...
View ArticleFRANKENSTEINS MEDELTAL
Prefacio - por Sandra Elena Dermark Bufí Tened en cuenta, entes encargados de llevar a cabo trámites administrativos de pagos en línea, bolsas de comida para gatos, sacacorchos, abrelatas, medios de...
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