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Snow turns the landscape magical. Day 8
Jan. 8th, 2018 11:22 pmIn your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Picking just *one* is... a nontrivial problem, is what it is. :P
I'm going way, waaaaay back with this one, to roughly 1991, when tiny Chanter, age seven, was first reading Charlotte's web. I'd seen the movie by that point, and I know there were many, many repetitions of the audio book (I distinctly recall playing with the speed settings on the tape player, as well as the bit about Fern biting into a raspberry with a bad-tasting bug in it and getting discouraged) but there was something special about properly reading the thing for myself. So it's the middle of--well, not the night, but certainly later than I should have been up, though not so late that my parents were in bed. And I get to the bit about the rope swing in the hayloft, the knot serving as the swing seat... and Fern getting hay down the back of her dress. "I have hay down the back of my dress," she yells, mid swing, so while in midair over the inside of a barn, "and it itches!" And Avery's response? "Scratch it!"
Oh, did tiny Chanter absolutely crack up laughing! Oh, did tiny Chanter ever have to try to stifle said crack-up for fear of getting in trouble for staying up late reading in bed! Oh, did tiny Chanter fail spectacularly at putting a sock in it! I don't know what it was about the sheer silliness and the following practicality of the whole thing, but oh holy *cow*, I just lost it! It's still hilarious, even twenty-five years later. ... To be fair, the part about the raspberry with the bad-tasting bug in it is still worth a giggle or three too, as is the "There was a dull thud. ... Then a horrible smell!" line. A lot of that last one comes down to the audio book narrator's delivery. But oh, that itchy hay! XD
Picking just *one* is... a nontrivial problem, is what it is. :P
I'm going way, waaaaay back with this one, to roughly 1991, when tiny Chanter, age seven, was first reading Charlotte's web. I'd seen the movie by that point, and I know there were many, many repetitions of the audio book (I distinctly recall playing with the speed settings on the tape player, as well as the bit about Fern biting into a raspberry with a bad-tasting bug in it and getting discouraged) but there was something special about properly reading the thing for myself. So it's the middle of--well, not the night, but certainly later than I should have been up, though not so late that my parents were in bed. And I get to the bit about the rope swing in the hayloft, the knot serving as the swing seat... and Fern getting hay down the back of her dress. "I have hay down the back of my dress," she yells, mid swing, so while in midair over the inside of a barn, "and it itches!" And Avery's response? "Scratch it!"
Oh, did tiny Chanter absolutely crack up laughing! Oh, did tiny Chanter ever have to try to stifle said crack-up for fear of getting in trouble for staying up late reading in bed! Oh, did tiny Chanter fail spectacularly at putting a sock in it! I don't know what it was about the sheer silliness and the following practicality of the whole thing, but oh holy *cow*, I just lost it! It's still hilarious, even twenty-five years later. ... To be fair, the part about the raspberry with the bad-tasting bug in it is still worth a giggle or three too, as is the "There was a dull thud. ... Then a horrible smell!" line. A lot of that last one comes down to the audio book narrator's delivery. But oh, that itchy hay! XD
