![]() ![]() Text and illustrations were obtained from HathiTrust. Its annual performance has become a Christmas tradition in many venues. The 1845 adaptation by Alexandre Dumas père, The History of the Nutcracker, was the basis for the famed and beloved Nutcracker ballet by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, scored by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Dark undertones hover around the sometimes oddly sinister Godfather Drosselmeier. ![]() Young Mary Stahlbaum's favorite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, comes to life, and after defeating the evil seven-headed Mouse King in battle, whisks her away to a magical kingdom populated by dolls. The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (German: Nussknacker und Mausekonig) was written in 1816. This translation is in the public domain in countries where copyright is Life+90 or less, and in the USA.Įrnst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann, German Romantic writer, composer, and artist, is known for his stories in which supernatural and sinister characters move in and out of mens lives, ironically revealing tragic or grotesque sides of human nature. The illustrations and the original German text of this story are in the public domain worldwide because the creators died more than 100 years ago. Translated from the German by Ascott Robert Hope (1846≡927) #1 �GrannyGrump 12-31-2015, 01:01 AMNutcracker and Mouse King by E.T.A. ![]()
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Jasmin, Marguerite’s daughter, is born to the life of privilege her grandmother dreamed of, but tempts fate by daring to catch the eye of the king. Marguerite becomes part of the royal court of the Sun King, but her fairy-tale existence is torn out from under her by a change of political winds. ![]() With those fateful words, events are set into motion that will span three monarchies, affecting the lives of four generations of women. Purely by chance, a drunken nobleman witnesses the birth and makes a reckless promise to return for Marguerite in seventeen years. Determined to give her daughter a better life than the one she herself has lived, the young mother vows to break the newborn’s bonds of poverty and ensure that she fulfills her destiny-to dance with kings. On a May morning in 1664, in the small village of Versailles, as hundreds of young aristocrats are coming to pay court to King Louis XIV, a peasant fan-maker gives birth to her first and only child, Marguerite. An epic generational tale of loves lost, promises kept, dreams broken, and monarchies shattered, To Dance with Kings is a story of passion and privilege, humble beginnings and limitless ambition. ![]() ![]() ![]() MARTIN: And when did it start to feel like you were getting something out of it?ĬAMERON: I wanted to remain a writer. But I was so worried about drinking again that I decided to do what they told me to do. ![]() I felt like I was being cornered into praying. And when you go to bed at night, say, thank you for keeping me sober. They said, now, when you get up in the morning, say, please keep me sober. It was a God that captured my imagination. I said, I could pray to that creative energy. I believe in a line of poetry from the poet Dylan Thomas - the force that through the green fuse drives the flower. And then I said, yes, I do believe in something. So they said, well, you must believe in something. MARTIN: In other words, prayer wasn't going to be the antidote for you, or so you thought.ĬAMERON: Right. JULIA CAMERON: Well, what happened to me the day that I got sober was that they said, now, if you want to stay sober, you have to pray. It's called "Seeking Wisdom." Cameron herself set out on that path decades ago after a friend told her flat-out that she was an alcoholic and she needed help. In 1992, Cameron published her bestselling book "The Artist's Way." Her new book goes deeper. Sitting in meditation, repeating a mantra or talking out loud to a higher power - writer Julia Cameron says it all counts as prayer and it's the key to unlocking creativity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m not sure what the recent excesses that Christie refers to in this dedication are. Graves’ literary pillory! Your friend, Agatha Christie.” Robert Graves was, of course, a famous and successful writer, who created works such as Goodbye to All That, I Claudius, and Claudius the God. 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But even he acknowledged that people cannot take very much of it, and that peaceful government depends on ‘the noble lie’. Plato held truth to be the goal of philosophy and the ultimate standard that disciplines the soul. However, even if honesty is sometimes the best policy, politics is addressed to people’s opinions, and the manipulation of opinion is what it is all about. Straight lies give way to sinuous spin, and open dishonesty disappears behind Newspeak and Doublethink. ![]() The manufacture of falsehood has changed over time, as the machinery becomes more sophisticated. For as long as there have been politicians, they have lied, fabricated and deceived. ![]() |