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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 18 October 2007 - Volume 10</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Song Contest: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/">lowlands-l.net/contest/</a> (- 31 Dec. 2007)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
========================================================================</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span>
<span id="_user_sandy@scotstext.org" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Sandy Fleming</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"> <<a href="mailto:sandy@scotstext.org">
sandy@scotstext.org</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Traditions" 2007.10.16 (06) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> Subject: Traditions</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
> Hoo, hoo, all ye little ghouls, ghoulettes and ghost hunters!</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
> In the Northern Hemisphere, days are growing shorter and leaves are</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> falling and beginning to decay. Halloween is almost upon us. And
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> where, pray, are all those postings about touches with the beyond and</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
> about undying seasonal traditions? Where are the paranormal parables,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> the spine-chilling stories about specters and the poems about eerie
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> encounters with the unknown?</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> Let's scare the children at least! They love to be scared.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> To kick it off, here's my annual offering:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> * <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/groth/gruli.htm">http://lowlands-l.net/groth/gruli.htm</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> * <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/groth/moor2.htm">http://lowlands-l.net/groth/moor2.htm</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
> * <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/groth/waak.htm">http://lowlands-l.net/groth/waak.htm</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> More translated poems:
<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/groth/">http://lowlands-l.net/groth/</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">These sound very factual! Groth is presumably talking about actual local
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">ghosts?</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Robert Burns is the undisputed master of gothic horror in Scots, I</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">think:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.robertburns.org/works/308.shtml">http://www.robertburns.org/works/308.shtml</a> (Tam O'Shanter)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<a href="http://www.robertburns.org/works/60.shtml">http://www.robertburns.org/works/60.shtml</a> (Death and Dr Hornbook)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.robertburns.org/works/74.shtml">
http://www.robertburns.org/works/74.shtml</a> (Halloween)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">A quick reading list of my favourite gothic classics in English...
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Short stories:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">W W Jacob's "The Monkey's Paw". The style is rather overblown but the</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
story is a humdinger.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">John Polidori's "The Vampyre" - the original and still the best!
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (you must read the</span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">original story - much as I admire Tim Burton and the Depp, the film is</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
nothing compared to it).</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Oscar Wilde's "The Canterville Ghost" - both funny and scary.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Gothic novels:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"Frankenstein" by Mary Wollestonecraft Shelley. I found this book more</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">than just a horror/golem story, it's quite a thought-provoking book
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">about the nature of scientific enquiry.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"Dracula" by Bram Stoker. Enough said.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
"The Monk" by Matthew Lewis - a terrible book, you must read it!</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"The Woman in Black" by Susan Hill - both the novel and the film are
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">quite terrifying and disturbing.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Though not in English, to round out this list I think I really have to</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">add:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"The Phantom of the Opera" by Gaston Leroux. Very strange!</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Some authors not normally associated with the genre but worth seeking</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">out in second-hand bookshops for the unusual horror to be discovered
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">amongst their minor works:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Walter de la Mare</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Gerald Durrell</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Lord Dunsany</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Sandy Fleming</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<a href="http://scotstext.org/">http://scotstext.org/</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: Traditions</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Super, Sandy! Thanks a lot!
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">> <a href="http://www.robertburns.org/works/308.shtml">
http://www.robertburns.org/works/308.shtml</a> (Tam O'Shanter)</span><br></div><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Here is a preview of my Low Saxon translation, folks:
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><a href="http://sassisch.net/shanter.htm">http://sassisch.net/shanter.htm
</a><br></div><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">But please don't pass it on at this point, since it will appear in print fairly soon.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">In this online version you can place (not click) your cursor on any Low Saxon word or phrase to see German and English glosses appear. In the Scots original you can do the same with difficult words to see English equivalents appear.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Thanks again, Sandy!</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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