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[DAY 35][OPEN][ALL][TEXT: NETWORK POST]

May 24, 2009 19:36

In Advanced Literature we've been analyzing fairy tales. More specifically we're talking about how the author of a tale frames the text to produce a moral they agree with. This week's subject is Cinderella ( Read more... )

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grand_theft_moe May 26 2009, 20:21:26 UTC

Purity's only part of it. It's one of the feminine virtues implied but not the whole of them. There are related ones (modesty, chastity) but also there are others (obedience, sweetness, mildness, all the characteristics of a calf about to be slaughtered)....All of these are implied. The foot is normally hidden, just like people's true natures. In exposing it, the Prince exposed the wicked stepmother and her daughters as false women: masculine in their cunning (according to the rules of fairy tales at least) and as cunning women, they recieved punishment, becoming blind beggars the rest of their lives.

But I wonder if there's such a thing as a different kind of Prince...

["Look. I think she's trying to imply abuse."

"Just bein' dramatic. All teenagers talk that way. Like they're victims of circumstance. The little gleet oughta be thankful she's alive. Anyway we already checked the household over. Stepparents are perfectly nice. No trauma showing up on the mite scan. "

"Probably. But I want somene assigned to keep an eye on her in home too. Reassign Jenkins from street duty if you need to."

"You're the boss."]

tunedout May 26 2009, 22:30:42 UTC

[He's not as good at 'hearing' between lines of text, not enough sensory data to catalog and understand, but her turns of phrase make him pause uncertainly.]

There's no such thing as a 'Prince' at all. Just people. Just you.

grand_theft_moe May 27 2009, 23:24:24 UTC

Clothes do not wear themselves. That doesn't mean they don't send a message. Same as a role that's played.

tunedout May 27 2009, 23:50:01 UTC

I'm not in the habit of pretending to be myself.

grand_theft_moe May 28 2009, 00:24:28 UTC

Why do you think I talk to you?

tunedout May 28 2009, 00:26:27 UTC

[ndgorjrgkiojworjwe. DGHNgngwoijs.]

Poor judge of character?

grand_theft_moe May 28 2009, 00:31:07 UTC

Given what you know of me, do you really think i'd make that mistake?

tunedout May 28 2009, 01:06:56 UTC

I... I don't know.

grand_theft_moe May 28 2009, 01:39:09 UTC

Well I don't. And I haven't. So quit with the sulky self deprecation.

tunedout May 28 2009, 01:54:37 UTC

It's not sulking, damn you're uppity.

[He wasn't sulking! It wasn't self-deprecation! He didn't have to think he was worth his weight in gold to be happy with himself like some people. He sulked frowned at the screen.]

grand_theft_moe May 28 2009, 18:44:51 UTC

The dark cloud of angst around your head says otherwise.

tunedout May 28 2009, 19:44:35 UTC

[Dgujurehnghrweiog. She flusters him. That pisses him off so much.]

They're called headphones.

grand_theft_moe May 29 2009, 04:38:11 UTC

I bet they're playing the Hungarian Suicide Song 24/7

tunedout May 29 2009, 05:29:42 UTC

Gloomy Sunday. I... have so many good versions I could probably listen to it for an entire day...

grand_theft_moe May 29 2009, 05:52:15 UTC

Oh god Neku I was just being facetious, don't do it.

tunedout May 29 2009, 06:06:09 UTC

[It's good she can't see him because he laughs.]

Too late.

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