Yes it is! I like to live there as much as possible. Fantasy is an alternative world where I have the most fun. A great place to be and how cool that we humans have the ability to create it, see it, live in in…….
Hooray for Lloyd Alexander! I brought The Black Cauldron along with me to read when I was in New Zealand in June, and then I read the Castle of Llyr after I came home. The fantasy bookstore I go to in Sydney didn’t have any more Chronicles of Prydain in stock, but I’m probably better off ordering them online — books are ridiculously expensive here in Australia!
I also bought the DVD of the animated Disney feature The Black Cauldron, which I saw with you in Dallas when it came out in 1985. Despite its notoriety as a box office flop that nearly sank Disney’s animation division, I found it an engaging and beautiful piece of fantasy, with terrific character animation and an excellent musical score by Elmer Bernstein. (I understand that The Black Cauldron was a huge hit in France. No Jerry Lewis jokes, please!) But of course it lacks the depth and richness of the book series.
The electronic composer Merle Ellis, in his musique-concrete piece “Triolet”, commented: “The good guys all are paranoid. They hide their noises in the cellar, Lloyd.” I don’t know whom he was addressing, or whether he was just making a bad pun on the word “celluloid”, but I don’t believe Mr. Alexander would have agreed with that sentiment. Far from paranoid, most of the good guys I know are fairly ingenuous. And we mustn’t hide our noises anywhere; let the worlds of our own devising create echoes that resonate far and wide in this one!
Glad you’re in Prydain! The next two books are quite wonderful… and if you’re like me you’ll be left with a quite powerful feeling at the end. I adored the books when I was young… read them a number of times… but when I read them aloud to my toddling young person Sofia… straight through one to the next… I was left with an emotional ‘hit’ that was very deep and profound… had an effect on my life direction as it were… for me Alexander is a very fine artist of the highest category… (I can hear the academics chortling)… and a ‘model’… i.e. specifically when he talked about how when he started writing for young people everything got deeper and more powerful emotionally, not less!
Yes it is! I like to live there as much as possible. Fantasy is an alternative world where I have the most fun. A great place to be and how cool that we humans have the ability to create it, see it, live in in…….
Yes… and a place to understand life and lives!
Hooray for Lloyd Alexander! I brought The Black Cauldron along with me to read when I was in New Zealand in June, and then I read the Castle of Llyr after I came home. The fantasy bookstore I go to in Sydney didn’t have any more Chronicles of Prydain in stock, but I’m probably better off ordering them online — books are ridiculously expensive here in Australia!
I also bought the DVD of the animated Disney feature The Black Cauldron, which I saw with you in Dallas when it came out in 1985. Despite its notoriety as a box office flop that nearly sank Disney’s animation division, I found it an engaging and beautiful piece of fantasy, with terrific character animation and an excellent musical score by Elmer Bernstein. (I understand that The Black Cauldron was a huge hit in France. No Jerry Lewis jokes, please!) But of course it lacks the depth and richness of the book series.
The electronic composer Merle Ellis, in his musique-concrete piece “Triolet”, commented: “The good guys all are paranoid. They hide their noises in the cellar, Lloyd.” I don’t know whom he was addressing, or whether he was just making a bad pun on the word “celluloid”, but I don’t believe Mr. Alexander would have agreed with that sentiment. Far from paranoid, most of the good guys I know are fairly ingenuous. And we mustn’t hide our noises anywhere; let the worlds of our own devising create echoes that resonate far and wide in this one!
Glad you’re in Prydain! The next two books are quite wonderful… and if you’re like me you’ll be left with a quite powerful feeling at the end. I adored the books when I was young… read them a number of times… but when I read them aloud to my toddling young person Sofia… straight through one to the next… I was left with an emotional ‘hit’ that was very deep and profound… had an effect on my life direction as it were… for me Alexander is a very fine artist of the highest category… (I can hear the academics chortling)… and a ‘model’… i.e. specifically when he talked about how when he started writing for young people everything got deeper and more powerful emotionally, not less!