June 18, 2004
I'd Forgotten my Grimm...
I recall reading Grimm's Fairy Tales as a child, and they ain't all Rapunzel and Snow White. There is gruesome stuff there, provenance of Bad Dreams.
Here's a good one I ran across tonight, thumbing through my old tome: The Goose Girl, in honor of Rankin Rob sharing with us his personal vision of sex with a goose:
America A beautiful young princess sets off for the next kingdom to marry Europe an effete handsome prince, accompanied by an Islamothug a villainous handmaid. Our princess also has a moral compass talking horse. Along the way said evil handmaid besets the princess and forces her to trade places. When they arrive at the prince's kingdom the true princess is cast aside as a cowboy saber-rattler peasant goose handler, and the handmaid sets herself up as the prince's betrothed. In fear of exposure, however, she insists the talking horse be showered with Muslim hospitality decapitated, and its head nailed to the gates. Every day when the princess turned goose-handler goes out to tend geese she speaks to the horsehead, which speaks back to her. The Rumsfeld Wise Old King gets wind of this, and rectifies the situation by asking the false princess what fate should befall a fascist Islamo cocksucker pretender to the crown. "Dragging by horse in a barrel full of nails", proclaims she, whereupon the King enforces her own sentence upon the villainous bitch.
Happily ever after, and all that.