Oct 26
Good Show Sir Comments: “I could get out of this marriage by sacrificing her to the gods. If only she were a virgin!”
Published 1972
Good Show Sir Comments: “I could get out of this marriage by sacrificing her to the gods. If only she were a virgin!”
Published 1972
October 26th, 2017 at 11:09 am
Yeah, totally nailed Angela Carter that did.
October 26th, 2017 at 11:48 am
D-I-S-C-O! She is D-I-S-C-O!
And so is he.
October 26th, 2017 at 12:04 pm
Rebecca’s wedding was ruined after someone set noclip = 0.
October 26th, 2017 at 12:14 pm
And now a few words from Academia after you look at the pretty colors.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249992275_Angela_Carter%27s_Heroes_and_Villains_A_Dystopian_Romance
October 26th, 2017 at 1:07 pm
@fred—thanks for the abstract. So—it’s obvious that the best way to illustrate a post-colonial, post-Enlightenment, neo-feminist deconstruction of the Rousseauian, Eurocentric maculinist myth of the Noble Savage is to have a deeply decolletaged blonde babe dressed in translucent white spandex-cum-bridal gown take front and center! No wonder we lost the revolution.
October 26th, 2017 at 1:21 pm
A fantasy novel featuring heroes *and* villains??? Be still my beating heart!
October 26th, 2017 at 2:19 pm
@fred:it’s easy to mock an eggheaded literary analysis, but our philosopher here has 20 times the number of hits on Research Gate that all of my papers have put together. Maybe I should write more modestly… 😉
October 26th, 2017 at 2:43 pm
“Tonight on The Dress That Says Yes…“
October 26th, 2017 at 3:03 pm
@DSWBigT—I have a whopping total of one, so there’s at least somebody out there you are no doubt way ahead of.
October 26th, 2017 at 3:42 pm
Goodness, is that Sir Ian Holm in fuchsia?
October 26th, 2017 at 3:48 pm
It could have been worse. In fact, it has been:
https://www.meetup.com/post-apocalypticbookclub/events/150206242 http://www.mindblowingbooks.co.uk/2013/08/Heroes-and-villains.html
These reviewers were disappointed that the text wasn’t like those covers. Imagine if they’d had this edition.
October 26th, 2017 at 4:17 pm
I have to admit, a guy dressed in a pastel and jewel-toned hybrid of Great Plains First Nations and Aztec clothing is a new one. A terrible fashion choice and potentially culturally insulting, but a new one.
The bride is strangely unbothered by this, and the fact that he’s holding a knife to her wrist, though. I’m curious as to why.
October 26th, 2017 at 4:28 pm
Fred: the academic article! “The present paper modestly attempts to study Angela Carter’s Heroes and Villains (1969) as a dystopian romance in apocalyptic mode.”
Amazing! I wish he had also published the immodest paper.
October 26th, 2017 at 4:42 pm
WTF? Is this an update on Juno and the Paycock?
October 26th, 2017 at 6:33 pm
@fred – Will this be on the exam?
October 26th, 2017 at 7:06 pm
1. The Bride of Blingula
2. “Hey, you stole my earrings!”
3. Where has the bottom of his left leg gone?
October 26th, 2017 at 11:17 pm
@fred: I have a great desire to smack the author of that paper, very hard. “BAD academic, no tenure!” Modest, ha.
@DSWBT: Sir Ian with just a dash of H*rl*n *llis*n.
@Tat Wood: “proud and beautiful Barbarian”. I dunno about him being beautiful, but his outfit certainly is fabulous.
@Anna T: Holding a knife some inches from her wrist while only holding said wrist isn’t much of a threat, is it? And mixing and matching the Native outfits to put them on a Barbarian seems two kinds of insult.
@B.Chiclitz: The skin and flesh have become transparent. You can see the bone.
@Tag Wizard: Hard to tell in all that swirly colors, but I think dude has a loincloth.
None of the covers seem to depict the book accurately.