Nekyia's Threshold

subject:
French Courtier versus German Christian Scholar
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2007-08-18 19:26:34
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I first heard this poem in the movie - A Company of Wolves. I never forgot it."Little girls, this seems to say, Never stop upon your way. Never trust a stranger-friend; No one knows how it will end. As you're pretty, so be wise; Wolves may lurk in every guise. Handsome they may be, and kind, Gay, or charming never mind! Now, as then, tis simple truth Sweetest tongue has sharpest tooth.."Charles Perrault, a courtier in the court of Louis XIV (1690's), told the tale of Little Red Ridinghood before the Brothers Grimm did. His version came with the impact of court seductions and intrigues. The Big Bad Wolf actually ate Little Red Ridinghood, the silly girl who was lured by sweet words into the slashing flash of sharp teeth. The Brothers Grimm came from a German, Christian background and so had a woodcutter chopping up the wicked wolf, dispensing punishment for the beast, and being a saviour of the innocent and curious Little Red Ridinghood, while removing sexuality.I've been obsessed with this theme for awhile now. I had a dream the other night - an erotic dream of sorts, though it had more a feeling of power embued in it, though sexuality was obvious. I recalled it easily, which I'm not in the habit of doing, and wrote about it as follows:I had a really erotic dream the other night. It was erotic to me, which isn't to say that it was a standardized erotic anything. I'm not very standard. It involved a large black wolf - it was the wolf from Little Red Ridinghood's forest. And grandpa. Not Grandma - but grandpa. The wolf was big and black and silky and dominant, and grandpa was on his hands and knees and being mounted by the big bad wolf. Grandma and Little Red Ridinghood weren't around as far as I could tell. There was sexual content, but the whole dream just reeked of power and mystical exchanges.Quotes from A Company of Wolves:Granny: Your only sister, all alone in the wood, and nobody there to save her. Poor little lamb. Rosaleen: Why couldn't she save herself? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Rosaleen: And then they lived happily ever after? Granny: Indeed they did not! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Mother: You pay too much attention to your granny. She knows a lot but she doesn't know everything. And if there's a beast in men, it meets its match in women too. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Rosaleen: Jesus, what big teeth you have! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Rosaleen: Who's come to sing us carols, then? Huntsman: Only my companions, darling. I love the company of wolves. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Rosaleen: I'm sorry. I never knew a wolf could cry. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Amorous Boy's father: A daughter is one thing, a heifer is another!