A Peculiar Observation

made whilst watching "Python" when I should, in fact, be asleep.

Not only does the "aliens turning people into scotsmen" sketch begin with what is very nearly the exact text as the first Harry Potter book--perfectly normal people, wouldn't think that anything odd or unusual would ever happen to them--one of the main characters is named Harold Potter.

Yes, indeed, Harold Potter. You all know what this means--clearly all of the Potterverse is merely scammed off of "Monty Python"!

No, but really, what a peculiar coincidence. I completely love every part of it.

Am now having very silly visions of Draco Malfoy or --Christ!-- Snape, suddenly walking off into the sunset bekilted and with one arm upraised to the sound of bagpipes. Should probably sleep more.

Also, I just realized that I get six whole icons! Yay more icon space!

Further Reading

The absolutely brilliant AJ Hall's got a really lovely essay examining Mark and Jane Studdock from C.S. Lewis' "The Hideous Strength" up on her eljay, touching on religion in writing, Lewis' misogyny, and the fact that he was a far better writer than he was able to let himself be.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/ajhalluk/163089.html?#cutid1

Silly Lewis. Of all my writers, he was the most flawed, lost touch most frequently with him own artistic truth. And yet I love him as I love very few.