681: Ch 3 — Cranford

Ep. 681: Cranford | Chapter 3

Book talk begins at 15:00

A mysterious gentleman caller? A missed dinner invite gone socially sideways? Things are getting awkwardly entertaining in the most delightfully proper way.

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00:00 Episode start

03:00 Knitting Comfortably: The ergonomics of knitting by Carson Demers https://bit.ly/april-raffle

"Wuv. TWOO Wuv…"

04:16 BOOK PARTY WAS Thursday, April 24th, for The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett - the Watch party will be May 29th. If you need to level-up to join us we've made it easy! Hammet biography for you

05:00 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid trailer

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OLD FARLEY'S (with the cat older than I am)

Pics of The Salt House

13:28 Heather attempts gardening on a deck without a hose. Sympathy and/or hints are welcomed ;) heather@craftlit.com

15:35 START OF BOOK TALK

19:20 Hortus Siccus - an arranged collection of dried plants

20:19 Judi Dench as Miss Matty in the miniseries

21:14 Articles of Engagement - rules for your servants (a contract)

22:00 wine and dessert (really wine and nuts)

22:44 Recondite - something difficult to understand

23:15 Army Lists

23:42 Bluebeard by Charles Perrault (who did NOT write the version of Tristan and Isolde we listened to)

• Moral: Curiosity, in spite of its appeal, often leads to deep regret. To the displeasure of many a maiden, its enjoyment is short lived. Once satisfied, it ceases to exist, and always costs dearly.
• Another moral: Apply logic to this grim story, and you will ascertain that it took place many years ago. No husband of our age would be so terrible as to demand the impossible of his wife, nor would he be such a jealous malcontent. For, whatever the color of her husband's beard, the wife of today will let him know who the master is. (Heather's note: I just had to add those here as I found them after I recorded)
• Andrew Lang, The Blue Fairy Book (London: Longmans, Green, and Company, ca. 1889), pp. 290-295.
• Lang's source: Charles Perrault, "La Barbe bleüe, "Histoires ou contes du temps passé, avec des moralités: Contes de ma mère l'Oye (Paris, 1697).
• And just for fun because I've mentioned it before: Blue Beard. Additional folktales of Aarne-Thompson types 312 and 312A and - The Robber Bridegroom. Another tale by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm about a sinister bridegroom (Aarne-Thompson type 955).—The **Aarne-Thompson**-Uther Index is wrapped around the Bluebeard story like a tourniquet!

24:50 "Leave me to repose…" from poem "The Descent of Odin" by Thomas Gray (of "<…