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Poor Yorick

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the difference between the lion king and hamlet is that in the lion king the jester is still alive; avi by @harveykrishna_

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Poor Yorick
Poor Yorick@a_fellow_of·
@simonsarris (I assumed you were taking a picture of the American classics abridged version, I mean). I’ll note that the prose of the original Wind in the Willows is so good that I have a hard time putting it down; it reminds me of Wodehouse, in some places—same great ear for dialogue
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Poor Yorick@a_fellow_of·
@xenocryptsite Which makes me wonder if there’s the opposite? Seems less likely; a book with tremendous cinematic potential is going to have *some* literary merit. Maybe one example is the Die Hard series? But it’s not based off a series of books, just one book en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_L…
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Poor Yorick@a_fellow_of·
@xenocryptsite Far more people have seen the LOTR movies than read the books, for example I guess what I’m saying is you can imagine (and think of) books that were immensely successful, but wouldn’t easily spawn franchises
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Xenocrypt@xenocryptsite·
To be fair, LOTR and Harry Potter were probably the biggest fantasy series of all time even before the movie franchises started in 2001, right? This is a very Hollywood thing, start out adapting the biggest thing in a genre and then be confused that you can't match it.
Ross Douthat@DouthatNYT

The pillaging of LOTR sub-stories and HBO's dank-looking Potter reflect the failure of cinematic fantasy outside Middle Earth, Hogwarts + Westeros. (e.g. Wheel of Time, Dark Materials, Shannara, plus non-Potter kids adaptations; Narnia movies started okay and petered out, etc.)

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Poor Yorick@a_fellow_of·
@simonsarris I made him keep reading till his voice was sore. We read Narnia and Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, and I’d make him keep going till he had to stop. Never once did we do that with the abridged books; and I learned more from Rowling than I would have from abridged Dickens!
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Poor Yorick@a_fellow_of·
@simonsarris Dickens absolutely is a lovable rogue, but the language makes it a bit hard. So don’t push it; leave it for later. Let the kids fall in love with books, and they’ll find their own way there. My dad used to spend hours every day reading Hardy Boys books to me—three in a day once
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Poor Yorick@a_fellow_of·
Dude I really dislike these books I read them when there was nothing else to do; but none of them was worth falling in love with, you know? I *loved* Narnia, and Wind in the Willows, and Calvin and Hobbes. But these were just… plots. Cliff notes. Not that I knew that then
Hannah Ward 👩🏻‍🏫 Mom (x3) | Learning Designer@HannahWardEdu

Kids who were raised on a huge pile of these are so far ahead it's not even fair. I'm so jealous. I only had two. 😭

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Poor Yorick@a_fellow_of·
@simonsarris dude I hated those books without knowing it God look what they did to my boy! The whole POINT of wind in the willows is the prose and the characters personalities! Why even keep the description of the lake at all if you’re gonna muck with the rhythm??
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Simon Sarris@simonsarris·
random page example of vocab, I mean
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Leaving aside the question of Rogan (never seen his standup), this is not uncommon! CS Lewis wanted to be an amazing poet and produced pretty mediocre poems, Doyle wanted to do anything but Sherlock, Douglas Adams disliked writing…
Ben Sixsmith@BDSixsmith

No, Joe Rogan is. Rogan is a tragic figure because he's the world most talented podcaster and the world's least talented comedian yet it's the latter that he cares about most. x.com/i/status/20369…

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Poor Yorick@a_fellow_of·
that I had been avoiding men like this for ages, and not correcting men like this in my care because it hurt so much to look at them and love them. Which meant I both did a disservice to the women I cared for and the men I was supposed to be mentoring.
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Poor Yorick@a_fellow_of·
deep sense of guilt/shame over my younger self’s desire to be loved and found attractive (like, my 13 year old self) and am really only able to love this guy when I love and embrace my younger self I still find it triggering but am grateful for it now; and I realized afterwards
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There’s a guy like this at my church—removed enough from me that he was ~never my problem or responsibility—and I noticed I couldn’t even look at him, and hearing women talk about him triggered me so hard I’d just zone out or have to put my head down Turns out that I have a
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