Posted Oct 25, 2004 by Steve K.
Nice entry, a deservedly famous story.
It reminds me of the bizarre element of other works, e.g. Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner". An excerpt:
"The very deep did rot: O Christ!
That ever this should be!
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea.
About, about, in reel and rout
The death-fires danced at night;
The water, like a witch's oils,
Burnt green, and blue, and white."
Coleridge reportedly got a little "boost" to the imagination from opium, a factor I've never heard linked to Kafka. But it is certainly linked to our more recent "artists", rock musicians. In a recent article on ex-Beach Boy Brian Wilson ("Drugs ruined my brain very badly"), UNCUT Magazine lists a number of other "dumb angels and adult children", including:
Syd Barrett, "Laughing madcap genius of early Floyd who took a trip too far and never came back".
Roky Erickson, "13th Floor Elevator ... whose excessive hallucinogenic intake led him to believe he was a Maritan. ... (now) reputedly keeps 30 TVs going at once to drown out the voices in his head."
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Posted Oct 26, 2004 by flyingtwinkle
coleridge was actually discussing slimy things and the bird but in one story beauty and the beast a prince is transformed by a witch into a beast
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Posted Oct 27, 2004 by Steve K.
Right, I'm not familiar with the story, but here is the plot based on the '91 Disney movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101414/
Sort of the reverse of the princess kissing the frog and turning it into a prince ... lots of bad jokes based on that one ...
http://www.gwu.edu/~folktale/GERM232/frogp/cartoons.html
 
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