And, Chapters 17-24

picot — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:50:38 +0000

“It was too hot. She was struck by an unusual heaving. A sense of irritation gathered round the doors and windows. Margaret reached the small side-entrance. The porter’s answer to the bell. The keen sharp pressure of the knife. She went across and up. Click of machinery.”

Continuing the abridged version of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South – abridged on the principle of leaving out all the important bits. In this section Margaret, supposedly on the lookout for a water-bed, conceives a sudden and all-consuming passion for clogs.

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In a Dark Wood – review of The Path by Tale of Tales

picot — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:32:48 +0000

Newly co-published by Furtherfield and The Hyperliterature Exchange: a review of The Path, a “short horror game” by Tale of Tales (Michael Samyn and Auriea Harvey), based on the story of Little Red Riding Hood.

“The two best-known versions of the tale are by Charles Perrault and the Grimm Brothers – but there are numerous others. Sometimes Red Riding Hood meets not a wolf but an ogre; sometimes, when she gets to the house, she is fed various parts of a dismembered grandmother. Samyn and Harvey retain the gruesomeness, the allusions to dismemberment, and the violent sexuality which feature in many earlier versions, and the symbolism which lurks beneath the surface of Red Riding Hood in all its various manifestations comes through particularly strongly.”

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And, Chapters 17-24

In a Dark Wood – review of The Path by Tale of Tales