"Ah, the dainty little porker"
I thought I had a copy of Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book around, but it must be in storage. So here's the next best thing, Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne. I bet you didn't know that the author of The Scarlet Letter (which you may have worked really hard at not reading in high school) also wrote about gluttonous pigs. Well, he did, in a retelling of Ulysses' visit to the palace of Circe.
3 comments:
This sounds vaguely familiar. Also I love that cover! It's very pretty. You know, if you like gluttonous pigs and that sort of thing.
Those pigs are creepy. And I definitely tried very, very hard not to read "The Scarlet Letter" in high school so I feel this applies directly to me.
Megan - you may remember the story if you studied the Odyssey in school and didn't try really hard not to read it. Or if you watched any version of it on tv.
Shannon - it's from an episode of Dr Who.
Adrien - if the letter fits, wear it!
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