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Last night I finally--finally!--read How's Moving Castle, which I've been trying to do all summer, ever since I first saw the movie. Which, oddly enough, is better than the book. All the pasts that made me gasp and hurt and cry were Miyazaki's additions. Not that the book isn't lovely, because it is. But the moment when Howl pulls back the curtain and sees that Sophie is the girl he met in Market Chipping under a curse, and then just lets the curtain fall again...I love Miyazaki so much. So much. And Howl is the best thing he's ever done. He makes small beautiful quiet things that break my heart with too much feeling.
The market at Chippingford is the place where Puzzle and Shift go in The Last Battle. There was a book that I read as a little girl that explained how "chipping" is an elision of "cheaping," and refers to haggling.
The names that Virginia Woolf uses in Room of One's Own--"Here then was I (call me Mary Beton, Mary Seton, Mary Carmichael or by any name you please—it is not a matter of any importance"--come from and old Scottish ballad about Mary Hamilton, who was hanged for bearing and then killing the King of Scotland's baby. And it makes me terribly, terribly happy that Virginia Woolf quotes old ballads, because I love them so, and her as well, and the two really do go together perfectly. "The Four Marys" is one of the songs that Joan Baez sang.
The market at Chippingford is the place where Puzzle and Shift go in The Last Battle. There was a book that I read as a little girl that explained how "chipping" is an elision of "cheaping," and refers to haggling.
The names that Virginia Woolf uses in Room of One's Own--"Here then was I (call me Mary Beton, Mary Seton, Mary Carmichael or by any name you please—it is not a matter of any importance"--come from and old Scottish ballad about Mary Hamilton, who was hanged for bearing and then killing the King of Scotland's baby. And it makes me terribly, terribly happy that Virginia Woolf quotes old ballads, because I love them so, and her as well, and the two really do go together perfectly. "The Four Marys" is one of the songs that Joan Baez sang.
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I since re-watched the movie with my mom, who had never read the book, to try to get a different perspective on it. As a stand alone, it may actually not be bad, but... I can't let go of my "WTF!!11" reaction.
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