Monday, October 6

is for the Lambton Worm.

Cupid and Psyche:

• Eros= erotic love
• Talking donkeys: Mr. Ed, Apuleius, Balaam
• The talking mule: Bottom from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
• 'shift from what's being said to how it's being said'
• "oh I come from a land from a far away place..." Arabian Nights
• "It was so and it was not so..." 'true and not true..." "happened and didn't happen..."
• reminds us of:

1. Beauty and the Beast- Beast
2. Cinderella- Sisters
3. Snow White- Beauty/ Jealous
4. Hans My Hedgehog- searching for lost husband, man-suit
5. Midsummer Nights Dream- Oberon, Bottom, and Titania
6. East of the Sun- searching for lost husband

voluptuous: pleasure, bliss, joy. daughter
Virago: mother in law

Cinderella:

• spoonerisms
• the ending of the Perrault (has a moral) and Grimm's (feet-cutting fun) versions are different