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The Puss in the Boots
Your comment 8 boxes down, Sep. 18, 2023, correlates a Persian cat in ancient Iran as the oldest feline sentient in the evolving Puss in boots fairy tale.
Do we have access to that Persian-style Puss in boots or do we know that version only ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/04/2024
Charles Perrault: Biography - Just the Facts
In a recent re-read of Wherever You Go There You Are by microbiologist, emeritus medicine professor and pioneering mindfulness practitioner and teacher Jon Kabat-Zinn, my sister found particular interest in the author's discussion of fairy ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/04/2024
The Role of Sleep in Fairy Tales with Examples
The first paragraph to the first subheading, Time flies Sleeping beauty, considers that "The baby girl is cursed to die, but a fairy manages to change death into one hundred years of sleep."
The second paragraph gives us the happy outcome of ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/04/2024
Hot springs are natural and need no luxury resort to attract healers from across the world
The healthy benefits of these hot springs remind me of Nicole Kidman's "miracle pregnancy," shared by six other women on the set of Baz Luhrmann's "Australia." They swam in the waters (albeit not mentioned as hot) of the Outback's Kununurra ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/04/2024
The Role of Sleep in Fairy Tales with Examples
I just never would have thought of writing an article about that! Well thought out, Jo
Jo_Murphy, on 01/04/2024
Savoury Waffle Journal
I tried to change this article to include sweet waffles as I made one yesterday. I broke the title link and quickly backed out!
Jo_Murphy, on 01/03/2024
Daniel Kotynia - getting on with life
Being a painter is very isolated indeed. It is people like you, Derdriu, that make it bearable. I often don't see people for days at a time. I always check in here in the morning in case you are here. It is probably night over there?
Jo_Murphy, on 01/03/2024
Hot springs are natural and need no luxury resort to attract healers from across the world
I always attribute it so people don't think I am trying to pass myself off as a deep fake. The AI is called DreamUP. It is a hand tool and fun, and there is a whole community of people to cheer you on, offer advice, and make suggestions. I ...
Jo_Murphy, on 01/03/2024
The Hungergames Phenomenon
Yes. It has also come on the Internet but for $30 (approx)
I was in Golden Beach when I saw it, but I came back. I would like to see it again before writing a review. Thanks for reminding me. I guess I should buy it in GooglePlay
Jo_Murphy, on 01/03/2024
Daniel Kotynia - getting on with life
That's interesting about introspection.
Perhaps that would explain why I can't think of any artist -- at least the famous ones from yesteryears -- regretting their artistic commitments.
Would at the same time artistry be less isolating than ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/03/2024
Hot springs are natural and need no luxury resort to attract healers from across the world
The Peanut-related painting sounds interesting and inventive enough already, but add to that co-paintership -- ;-D -- with AI...!
(How would the attribution go? And would AI -- Virtual assistants have names over here! -- have a first name?)
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/03/2024
The Puss in the Boots
I am not an expert on mythology, but there are definitely many interesting things to explore. You can start with Minotaur or Kentaurs or Mermaids or Sirens or ...
Tolovaj, on 01/03/2024
The Beauty and the Beast
As far as I know none of them is named, but there are very likely less known adaptations for small audences where folk is named. Seven dwarf, after all, were named much later too.
Tolovaj, on 01/03/2024
The Hungergames Phenomenon
It sounds like you're in coastal Australia.
Would any movie theater still be showing the latest Hunger Games?
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/03/2024
The Puss in the Boots
Your wizzley on the mythological antecedents to the fairy tale about the wolf and the seven young kids caused me to ponder other fairy-tale and myth connections.
Animal sentients intervening for their human companions' well-being does not draw ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/03/2024