A New Wild Rosé?
"Haggard went on to declare: "The fact is that it was written at white heat, almost without rest, and that is the best way to compose." He admitted to having had no clear story in mind when he began writing:
I remember that when I sat down to the task my ideas as to its development were of the vaguest. The only clear notion that I had in my head was that of an immortal woman inspired by an immortal love. All the rest shaped itself round this figure. And it came — it came faster than my poor aching hand could set it down.
Various scholars have detected a number of analogues to She in earlier literature.
I've just read/listened to H. Rider Haggard's 'SHE' and watched the 1911 movie and the 1965 movie starring Ursula Andress as "SHE who must be obeyed" and think that the 1965 movie would be a good double-feature screening with 'Barbie' on a Jungian level, hey Chris?
I remember that when I sat down to the task my ideas as to its development were of the vaguest. The only clear notion that I had in my head was that of an immortal woman inspired by an immortal love. All the rest shaped itself round this figure. And it came — it came faster than my poor aching hand could set it down.
Various scholars have detected a number of analogues to She in earlier literature.
According to Brantlinger, Haggard certainly read the stories of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, in particular A Strange Story (1862), which includes a mysterious veiled woman called "Ayesha", and The Coming Race (1871), which is about the discovery of a subterranean civilisation.
Similarly, the name of the underground civilisation in She, known as Kôr, is derived from Norse mythological romance, where the deathbed of the goddess Hel is called Kör, which means "disease" in Old Norse.
In She, a plague destroyed the original inhabitants of Kôr.""According to Haggard's daughter Lilias, the phrase "She-who-must-be-obeyed" originated from his childhood and "the particularly hideous aspect" of one rag-doll: "This doll was something of a fetish, and Rider, as a small child, was terrified of her, a fact soon discovered by an unscrupulous nurse who made full use of it to frighten him into obedience. Why or how it came to be called She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed he could not remember."
"Feminist literary historians have tended to define the figure of She as a literary manifestation of male alarm over the "learned and crusading new woman".[93] In this view, Ayesha is a terrifying and dominant figure, a prominent and influential rendering of the misogynistic "fictive explorations of female authority" undertaken by male writers that ushered in literary modernism"
Oh, I'm sorry, you are yet to see 'Barbie' and probably never will according to a more recent post at 'The Sun', right Chris, which probably says more about you on a Jungian level than about you being scared of your own shadow ... I mean seeing the movie?
Haggard wrote that "the title She" was taken "from a certain rag doll, so named, which a nurse at Bradenham used to bring out of some dark recess in order to terrify those of my brothers and sisters who were in her charge.""
"She: A History of Adventure has been adapted for film at least ten times, and was one of the earliest movies to be made: In 1899, as La Colonne de feu (The Pillar of Fire), by Georges Méliès."
"Psychoanalyst Carl Jung considered Ayesha, the female protagonist of She, to be a manifestation of the anima.[35]"
"The mainstream media are the most insane, most unhinged, and deadliest conspiracy theorists the world has ever seen. No reasonable or honest person could ever argue with that."?
Barbie-cue ... Plate of Shrimp ... Plate ... Shrimp?🦐🍤🔥
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Hmm ... Chris sure seems to like giving them a run for their money over there at 'The Secret Sun' methinks;-P
I'm with Jake when it comes to "synchromysticism", not Chris Knowles' parinoid ramblings, as amusing as they are to saner minds than his;-)
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