Friday, October 3, 2008

10/01/2008 notes

Hans My Hedgehog
Henson/Minghella "Storyteller"

rash promise
transformation
passing of property
abduction
childless couple
monster baby
sacrificial child - enmity of parent
isolation
beast marriage

epithets
language rules/formulas


"...music both bitter and sweet, beginning in hello and ending in goodbye..."

We look before and after,
And pine for what is not;
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Shelley, To a Skylark

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