[HN Gopher] The Heroic Industry of the Brothers Grimm
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       The Heroic Industry of the Brothers Grimm
        
       Author : prismatic
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2025-01-08 21:36 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | cubefox wrote:
       | At the end of the essay, the author (David Mason) quotes the
       | beginning of Cinderella. I agree with Mason about the beauty of
       | the terse prose here:
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       | > So much is conveyed here about character, time and the natural
       | world, because Cinderella's piety is natural piety, respect for
       | nature more than conventional Christian belief.
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       | It's something that modern fantasy usually doesn't capture, by
       | being too modern, and by being far too verbose. The latter is one
       | aspect in which Tolkien's Simarillion feels better than his "The
       | Lord of the Rings": The Simarillion leaves all the details out,
       | it has little direct speech, and only mentions what's important.
       | Its style is not as raw and authentic as in Grimm's fairy tales,
       | or as in actual historical legends like King Arthur, but it gets
       | close as times, mainly by avoiding the verbosity that is so
       | common in all modern literature.
        
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