Yes, it is very nice. Thank youlombano wrote:I should clarify regarding when I wrote about fairy about tales, that there are fairy tales I consider to be very, very good - for example Kirikou et la Sorciere http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me8O56MqjR8 I consider absolutely brilliant.
.I love almost all of Shakespeare but if I have to choose one favourite it has to be "Hamlet". But you have also reminded me of something: "Titues Andronicus" is a horror compared with which all these film horrors seem very weak indeed. But I see it at most once in 10 years. (Technically its perhaps the weakest of Shakespeare plays but it is the only one that is a genuine horror story).lombano wrote: For me what matters more is not realism in the strict sense, but honesty - King Lear is highly implausible but feels to me the most honest of all the Shakespeare plays I've read.
Also, I just found that the Wikipedia has a very full and detailed account of the Tatiana the SIberian tiger incident that I mentioned in my post.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Franci ... er_attacks
At the end of the Wikipedia article there is this note:
A year after she died, Tatiana was memorialized on Telegraph Hill by a sculptor from San Francisco's Sunset District, Jon Engdahl. The life-size representation of the reclining tiger was unveiled on December 25, 2008, the anniversary of her fatal attack on Carlos Sousa.[42] Composed of concrete, ceramic tile and wire, the statue was installed in a densely-foliaged area near the Greenwich Steps on the east side of Coit Tower. "This was a labor of love," Engdahl told the press. "I identified with this beautiful animal. I felt sorry for the sordid and needless way she died."[42] The work, in the style of Spanish artist Antonio Gaudi, represents Tatiana as she looked when she arrived at the San Francisco Zoo, at less than two years old. The sculpture, placed without city permission, is not easily seen from either the street or the Steps.
Never having heard about this before I had a strange feeling: I found that there was someone who felt exactly how I did and reacted by creating a work of art. I think there is some vague relation here to LTROI - perhaps even more than I realised when I the thought of this incident first came to my mind in this connection.
