Re: OT: More old Python?

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 05:37:06 +0000 (UTC), Chris
<pelzo63@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>> Methuselah Jones wrote:
>> > Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of Amy
>> > Guskin of rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated make plain:
>> >
>> >
>> >>I also like the last bit of "Snow White" in one of the editions I have
>> >>(referring to the now-revealed wicked queen/stepmother): "Iron
>> >>slippers had already been heated over a fire, and they were brought
>> >>over to her with tongs. Finally, she had to put on the red-hot
>> >>slippers and dance until she fell down dead."
>> >
>> >
>> > That reminds me of a story I heard as a child, of a man who was executed
>> > by being forced to sit on a red-hot iron chair. That's all I remember
>> > about it, except that I think it was for treason.
>> >
>> > I had long forgotten the story, but something I read recently mentioned
>> > it in passing, and it came swimming back to the surface.
>> >
>
>
>in scifi.com's seeing ear theatre, there's an interesting re-imagining
>of the snow white story done by Neil Gaiman(B5: day of the dead writer)
>called Snow Glass Apples.
>
>i highly recommend if, but it is not for the squeamish.
>
>http://www.scifi.com/set
>
>realplayer required.
>
>...Chris

My favorite Snow White retelling it Tanith Lee's "Red as Blood" (Snow
White is actually a vampire and the "evil queen stepmother" most
justifiably attempts to kill her <g>)

-Wendy

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