jsm on Nostr: I love reading the original Brothers Grimm stories. They’re incredibly, nasty, ...
I love reading the original Brothers Grimm stories. They’re incredibly, nasty, brutish, and short. They paint a picture of a Hobbesian world where stories fairytales don’t always have fairytale endings, the bad guys sometimes win, and the story doesn’t have to have a point or pithy moral truth.
They break your brain a little because you unconsciously search every fairytale for some meaning or moral. Every time a hero gets three wishes you expect all three will be used and the third will probably have a twist. If a gun is introduced in the first act you expect it to be fired at some point.
The old fairytales don’t do this though. Sometimes there’s no meaning, they only use one or two wishes because that’s all the story required, and someone just gave them a sick sword that has no purpose.
https://cpb-ca-c1.wpmucdn.com/myriverside.sd43.bc.ca/dist/0/3626/files/2018/01/The-Brothers-Grimm-1yfwcr9-1x4yq9t.pdf
They break your brain a little because you unconsciously search every fairytale for some meaning or moral. Every time a hero gets three wishes you expect all three will be used and the third will probably have a twist. If a gun is introduced in the first act you expect it to be fired at some point.
The old fairytales don’t do this though. Sometimes there’s no meaning, they only use one or two wishes because that’s all the story required, and someone just gave them a sick sword that has no purpose.
https://cpb-ca-c1.wpmucdn.com/myriverside.sd43.bc.ca/dist/0/3626/files/2018/01/The-Brothers-Grimm-1yfwcr9-1x4yq9t.pdf