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How the 10 artists dress Beauty intrigues me.

Gordon Browne and Jessie Wilcox Smith perhaps make Beauty respectively economically, practically dressed like for going to work and afternoon, non-evening, non-night dressed like for going to a daytime or pre-dinner evening event such as to morning or noon or Friday Mass (as opposed to Sunday Mass).

Anne Anderson, Eleanor Vere Boyle, Thomas Edward Donnison, Edmund Dulac, Warwick Goble and Katharine Pyle make Beauty dressed fashionably, stylishly like a lady with money and socioeconomic standing, might it not be your interpretation along with mine?

In such case, might those clothes be from the Beast castle wardrobes?

(Might you have seen Guy Ritchie's The man from UNCLE? Beauty in Beast castle wardrobe-chosen clothes reminds me of Armie Hammer as Illyra Kuryakin in his rich-man cover selecting clothes for Alicia Vikander as "chop-shop" girl Gaby Teller.)

Your comment Jan. 3, 2024, advised us your day-before sweet waffle-making.

A broken title link kept you from a Sweet waffle wizzley at the time.

Might such a catastrophe prevent your ever writing such a wizzley?

Thank you!

It appears that fairy tales at first glance do not necessarily always have socioeconomically rags-to-riches heroines.

For example, Snow White has socioeconomically royal riches as a king's daughter even as she has emotional rags as the stepmother queen's unwanted inherited family member by marriage to Snow White's father.

Is a fairy-tale heroine generally either a king's or a merchant's daughter?

Might the respective fairy tales have matched Cinderella to a specific socioeconomic niche, such as a merchant father?

Where might Gretel stand as (was it) a hunter's daughter?

(It would be educationally entertaining, entertainingly educational for ;-D Tolovaj ;-D to write a wizzley about the socioeconomic niches of fairy-tale heroines and villainesses!)

Merchants were typical middle class. They were not mobility but not poor either. They could even provide good marrieages to poor nobility. But in this case, merchant lost everything, so this story has a structure riches-to-rags-to-riches, just like Cinderella.

I agree.

Yes, I have. I believe the bw verson is more effective n this case.

No. There is no biblical tradition of the Ice Age.

They taste like nuts, as far as I know.

The medium of Endor who raised Samuel's ghost.

Some online sources describe paranormal as interfacing between two worlds.

Might there be any example or suggestion of paranormal in the Bible?

Thank you for your comment Feb. 14, 2023, in answer to my previous question Feb. 13, 2023!

Nut-based flour such as acorn flour interests me.

Online sources list such nutty ;-D sources as almond-, cashew-, chestnut-, filbert-, hazelnut-, pecan-, waknut-tree nuts.

Might you be acquainted with how they taste?

Their preparation surely would be similar to acorn flour-making, correct?

Your last comment intrigues me about "how humans survived the Ice Age."

It made me think of the pre-Flood peoples and the post-Flood survivors.

Some online sources seem to suggest the Ice Age as a second divine worldwide cleansing. Would there be any tradition behind such an interpretation?

The third subheading, Exotic, considers the mercantile context that socioeconomically claims Beauty and her father and his family.

What does the merchant occupation draw up as a socioeconomic domain? Does it put Beauty in a socioeconomic niche of the status quo or of upward mobility?

The second entry, as 6. Edmund Dulac (1882-1953). under the third subheading, Exotic, describes the exotic headwear of Beast and Beauty.

Do you find, like me, the paternal headwear on the William Mulready (1786-1863) illustration and the Belle headwear on the Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825-1916) illustration exotic?

The scary aspect appeals to me less than the strange aspect.

That strangeness comes out in the Cocteau film. The black-and-white filming emphasizes the categorical goodness of Belle ("Beauty") and the unsettling strangeness of Bête ("Beast").

Have you seen the Cocteau interpretation?

Might it have the same effect if updated to a colorized or a color version?