I'm going to be doing a series of posts just for the heck of it, and it's really quite simple. I shall take each letter of the alphabet, and find something awesome starting with it. Hopefully they won't all be boring and obvious ones... So here goes the first instalment!
Adipose: as in, the adorable little adipose monsters in Dr Who, not the real stuff, yuck!
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Courtesy of Google Images
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Bats (I couldn't resist): their young are called pups, and they groom them by licking and scratching them gently, all this whilst hanging upside down, of course.
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| Squeeeee! Baby bats are too cute (thanks to webecoist.momtastic.com) |
Clair de lune: the piano piece is the third movement of the Suite Bergamasque by Debussy, and is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written, in my opinion. It's also one of those pieces with the peculiar tendency to reduce me to tears whenever I hear it (some types of music do that to me, for no good reason. A bit lame, but there you go).
Dorian Gray: it would seem that Oscar Wilde's masterpiece had been revised to hell and gone to rid it of all the "unclean", "poisonous" and "discreditable" parts (so, the good bits); luckily for those warped souls out there, an uncensored version has just been published containing (the horror!) more homoerotic references and dialogue between Basil and Dorian. I think I know what I want for Christmas this year...
I did not actually know that The Picture of Dorian Grey had been edited O.o Do they disclaim that they've edited it anywhere in the edited versions, do you think? Which current print of it is unedited??
ReplyDeleteHonestly I can't remember which print it was, I'm sure if you do a search for it you'll find it fairly easily.
ReplyDeleteI don't think they disclaim that it was edited, because as far as the publishers were concerned, the version that was published was the "original" anyway. They were so precious about things in those days...