Happy Birthday, Jacob Grimm

[filkertom]

On this date in 1785. He became famous for being transformed by cosmic rays into the Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed...






... Sorry. Wrong guy. This Grimm, and his brother Wilhelm, collected Grimm's Fairy Tales.

Different approach from normal: What fairy tales bug you the most? For me, trying to describe the plot of Rumplestiltskin is like trying to describe the plot of The Rocky Horror Show. It makes absolutely no frickin' sense at all.

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[batyatoon]

And I tell you again, in caps, so maybe you'll get it this time, PRINT IS DEAD.

I do hope you appreciate the irony of telling me this in a text-based format.

The original Wonka books don't matter.... The film is the only text that matters, because that's the only one people know about.

That, of course, depends entirely on what you mean by "matters." Popularity is an important gauge for story power, of course, but hardly the only one.

And I've seen this generation's indifference to text firsthand, in the form of long long long lines to buy the next Harry Potter book -- much longer than the lines to see the next movie. I was working in a school when the third Potter movie came out, and polled the kids who'd seen it; every one of them had read the book first (multiple times!), and every one of them said the book was better.

Sorry to crush your cynicism, but print's alive and well.