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From "Dummling and the Three Feathers": Once upon a time there lived a King who had three sons; the two elder were learned and bright, but the youngest said very little and appeared somewhat foolish, so he was always known as Dummling.
When the King grew old and feeble, feeling that he was nearing his end, he wished to leave the crown to one of his three sons, but could not decide to which. He thereupon settled that they should travel, and that the one who could obtain the most splendid carpet should ascend the throne when he died.
So that there could be no disagreement as to the way each one should go, the King conducted them to the courtyard of the Palace, and there blew three feathers, by turn, into the air, telling his sons to follow the course that the three feathers took.
Then one of the feathers flew eastwards, another westwards, but the third went straight up towards the sky, though it only sped a short distance before falling to earth.
Therefore one son traveled towards the east, and the second went to the west, both making fun of poor Dummling, who was obliged to stay where his feather had fallen. Then Dummling, sitting down and feeling rather miserable after his brothers had gone, looked about him, and noticed that near to where his feather lay was a trapdoor. On lifting this up he perceived a flight of steps, down which he went. At the bottom was another door, so he knocked upon it, and then heard a voice calling . . .
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Beau Bridges
reviewed Grimm's Fairy Stories on May 02, 2020
Grimm's Fairy Stories
Sometimes, you just have to hand it to people based on sheer innovation alone.
For example, the buttered popcorn jellybean may be disgusting on a level previously undiscovered by man, bringing together an unholy combination of unexpected texture and profoundly unpleasant taste in a way that should be reserved solely for punishing our society's most reprehensible criminals, but don't you have to acknowledge the sheer evil genius of those whimsical folks at the Jelly Belly corporation for making history?
Same goes for this book, which manages to make some of the most fantastic tales of all time straight-up boring.
This is hands down the worst and most tragic translation of the Grimm tales I've ever read, and I've read a lot of those glorified gentrifiers.
Where is the SPARK. Where is the FUN. Where is the OVERWROUGHT LANGUAGE and the REPETITIVE DESCRIPTIONS OF PRETTY GIRLS and the ADVENTURE.
This book sucks, but you kind of have to give it props just for managing to take something like "guy who doesn't know what fear is gets up to hilarious hijinks in a haunted house and is handed a princess for it" or "girl highkey needs to get laid and so she accidentally discovers her husband is a bear and then it's like oh sh*t we have to save this guy from the world's ugliest woman"...and making it boring.
It is so unimpressive that it actually comes full circle and is impressive again.
Bottom line: Read literally any volume of fairy tales other than this one.
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the brothers grimm want what andrew lang has!!!
review to come / 2 stars
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going to be offline for a couple days. i'm trying to learn how to shudder and this king guy said if i stay in a haunted castle for three nights i can marry his daughter
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