A semi-intellectual post
A long time ago, i read a book by Dianna Wynne Jones, called Fire and Hemlock.
Yesterday (at the hair salon), i read a book by Carolyn Parkhurst called The Dogs of Babel.
A similarity between the two books: The Ballad of Tam Lin.
or as i put it: "the ultimate fight for a man between two women".
*snorts*
Sorry. Anyway, so. it took me like, maybe a couple of years, to understand a little more the ballad of Tam Lin, but now i finally think i can understand a little of how the Faerie Queen felt about Tam Lin, about Janet, about the "betrayal". When i was younger, i used to think the Faerie Queen was the only evil one, but maybe... well, maybe she isn't all that bad after all.
After all, i've met women who can definitely match her fury.
But had I known Tam-Lin, she says
What now this night I see,
I would have taken thy two grey eyes,
And turned thee to a tree.
Oh had I known, Tam-Lin, she says
Before ye came from home,
I would ta'en your heart o' flesh,
Put in a heart o' stone.
Yesterday (at the hair salon), i read a book by Carolyn Parkhurst called The Dogs of Babel.
A similarity between the two books: The Ballad of Tam Lin.
or as i put it: "the ultimate fight for a man between two women".
*snorts*
Sorry. Anyway, so. it took me like, maybe a couple of years, to understand a little more the ballad of Tam Lin, but now i finally think i can understand a little of how the Faerie Queen felt about Tam Lin, about Janet, about the "betrayal". When i was younger, i used to think the Faerie Queen was the only evil one, but maybe... well, maybe she isn't all that bad after all.
After all, i've met women who can definitely match her fury.
But had I known Tam-Lin, she says
What now this night I see,
I would have taken thy two grey eyes,
And turned thee to a tree.
Oh had I known, Tam-Lin, she says
Before ye came from home,
I would ta'en your heart o' flesh,
Put in a heart o' stone.