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The 9th subheading, 9. Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter (1979), ends with the explanation that "There is also another important point to acknowledge: being the Beast he is special and interesting but as a handsome young man he is just an ordinary guy what is further emphasized in Cocteau's movie La Belle et la Bete from 1946. Belle is actually disappointed after the transformation. In this case, a transformation can be understood as the end of magic."

Is the Cocteau film, which I know and like, alone in that interpretation?

Sometimes the plucky cursor just doesn't give any attributions even in the Mozilla Firefox that you identified as your fail-safe and that 99.9-percent-recurring is now mine!

Is it possible, please and thank you, to list those attributions for all but the image below subheading 5. Prince Marcassin by Madame d'Aulnoy (1698) and the image right of subheading 6. Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve (1740) and Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (1756)?

Online sources appear to assemble sparse information about JMK and her daughter, her housekeeper and her family.

For example, it somewhat confounds me that online sources do not have an exact death day for Ernest Archibald Taylor.

Is there any information anywhere or any tradition about JMK's husband's death day in November 1951 or about their daughter's exact birth and death months and days?

Thank you for the answer March 16, 2023, to my previous, same-day question.

The Heather Terrace sounds to me like it showcases gray-purple shades from ground-hugging vegetation.

Would it have a Welsh name different from or the same as its English moniker?

Your comment Oct. 29, 2019, in answer to my previous question Oct. 28, 2019, indicates some familiarity with modern Welsh.

Is that familiarity describable as basic comprehension, reading, speaking and writing skills?

(Might you have an English -- ;-D -- accent in your spoken Welsh?)

The last sentence to the third subheading, Educated and educating, alerts us to JMK and husband Ernest Archibald Taylor bringing up just one child, daughter Merle Elspeth (1909–1985).

Online sources contain perhaps half a dozen photographs at most of perhaps Merle Elspeth King Taylor. They offer no information as to her personal and her professional evolutions.

Might there be more information or might Merle have liked, and obtained, an anonymous life mysterious to all but her cherished few?

The artyoushouldknow link between subheadings 3. Cymon and Iphigenia by Boccaccio (1353) and 4. The Pig King by Giovanni Francesco Straparola (1550), carries the message that "Hmmm… can't reach this pageartyoushouldknow.canalblog.com took too long to respond[.] Try: Search the web for artyoushouldknow canalblog[;] Checking the connection[;] Checking the proxy and the firewall[;] Running Windows Network Diagnostics
ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT"!

Is there another way to access that linked content there?

The last sentence to the fourth subheading, The Pig King by Giovanni Francesco Straparola (1550), advises us that "By the way, The Pig King is one of the official predecessors of Hans My Hedgehog by brothers Grimm ad a whole series of so-called animal-groom fairy tales."

How are "animal-groom fairy tales" characterized and recognizable?

At times I have resorted to separating letters to prevent this checker from operating., e.g. t e a c h.

Thank you!

That spelling-checker is quite furtive in its stubborn insistence, despite all orthographical facts and rules to the contrary.

You of course know as Gaelic the next-last word in my comment below, correct?

It muscled in Gaeic time and time again even as I managed to modify it back to Gaelic until it somehow prevailed as Gaeic between my last modification and my last submitted save.

My Lenten recipes have been borrowed from your recipe pages.

This wizzley is the scrumptious source of lob-scouse, scouse-butty and wet-nelly servings.

This helpful, informative, practical, timely wizzley mentions them as the basic, simple fare of the British poor. So they offer themselves, to my way of thinking, as heads-down, humble, shuffling-feet Lenten fare -- albeit nice-looking, smelling and tasting.

Coffee with ginger-turmeric and senna tea bags tend to be my drinks.

Would hot tea and sparkling water be your drink preferences?

Online searches, with perhaps three exceptions, are unproductive regarding Mary McNab.

Art Prints on Demand carries a JMK print with the title None with her save a little maid. Could that be an illustration of JMK and Mary McNab?

The Archives and Collections of the Glasgow School of Art and various Wikipedia articles describe Mary McNab as folklore-proficient and Gaelic-speaking.

The housekeeper, nurse and nursemaid joined the King/Taylor household in 1909 and lived there until her death in 1938. Kirkcudbright was her cremation place even as the Minard church of Agyll, Scotland, was her burial place.

JMK ashes and those of JMK husband Ernest Archibald Taylor (Sep. 5, 1874-Nov. 1951) were scattered atop the McNab grave, in 1949 and 1951 respectively.

Mainly traditional vegetable crops, poultry and maybe some sheep or goats. Occasionally new vegetables, such as okra, make a new crop, but the old ones are good enough.

Devon lies on a basis of old red sandstone, so it's beaches and its soil have a red tinge to them.

Thank you for the alert and the information!

Online sources appear to associate Paignton beach near Torquay in Devon with pink sand. No other eastern-pond beach -- unlike the quite a few Hawaiian color-sanded beaches -- appears described as black- or green- or pink- or red- or any other-sanded.

Does Devon in fact have pink beach sand or might it perhaps be light-brown that perhaps pinkens in the sunrise or the sunset?