10-01-2010, 01:48 AM
(09-30-2010, 10:27 PM)--Pete Wrote: Brothers Grim = fairy tales. My German isn't up to the task, but I've read many of them in translation. I don't understand what you might have missed. ?
--Pete
Pete, there are Disney-style 'fairy tales' wherein all is sweetness and light and the Good Guys™ always prevail.
And then there are the tales collected by the Brothers Grim. Not the same thing at all. The ones I have read (all in translation) usually end with maiming, horror and/or death. They are dark tales with little light - usually cautionary tales intended to scare people into doing what others think is right.
That is why I asked.
(I have just seached my bookshelves and discovered that (of course) my copy is not here, but at the cottage, so I cannot verify my recollection or give the edition I have.)
And you may call it righteousness
When civility survives,
But I've had dinner with the Devil and
I know nice from right.
From Dinner with the Devil, by Big Rude Jake
When civility survives,
But I've had dinner with the Devil and
I know nice from right.
From Dinner with the Devil, by Big Rude Jake