Artistic Curses?
Artistic Curses In the classic comedy "A Midsummer's Nights Dream" Shakespeare sets up a conflict between lovers. At the height of the "battle" Lysander says to Hermia, "Get you gone, You minimus of hind'ring knotgrass made, You bead, you acorn". Now that is a classic curse!
Who can come up with other great curses, insults etc. From the history of literature. We live in a time where it is in fashion to insult one another. Wouldn't it at least be better if the insults had some style!
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Romeo and Juliet I like it that Mecutio calls Tybalt a rat-catcher and threatens one of his nine lives. Tybalt has the same root-word origin and tabby (as in cat). MERCUTIO Draws Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk?
TYBALT What wouldst thou have with me? MERCUTIO Good king of cats, nothing but one of your nine lives; that I mean to make bold withal, and as you shall use me hereafter, drybeat the rest of the eight.
Shakespeare really is the master at this... Richard III provides many good examples of curses. My favorites are from Margaret directed at Richard: ... "thou elvish-mark’d, abortive, rooting hog” (I.iii.225) or “you poisonous bunch-back’d toad” (I.iii.244) ... If you really want to have fun, try the random Shakepearean insult generator here: mainstrike.com/mstservices/handy/insult.... BryroseA's Recommendations Shakespeare's Insults: Educating Your Wit Amazon List Price: $12.95 Used from: $0.01 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 8 reviews) The Book of Classic Insults Amazon List Price: $11.95 Used from: $1.48 .
These are a few of my favorite things.... There are two curses I’ve always been fond of. Actually there are many curses I’ve always been fond of, but these two seem especially juicy! The first is the Frenchman’s curse from that magnificent artistic achievement Monty Python and the Holy Grail: ‘You don’t frighten us, English pig-dog.
Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called Arthur-King. You and your silly English kin---niggets.
I don’t want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough wipers. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time! ’ The second is a Bedouin curse by Ibn Belta, a tribesman of the southern Saudi desert who bemoaned the lack of hospitality offered by farmers of the Asir region. Hospitality is the rock-bottom fabric of life itself to Bedouin, and so in his marvelous book Arabia of the Bedouins, former Dutch diplomat and author Marcel Kurpershoeck quotes the following curse: ‘O God, I pray, do not award that land any of Your favors.
Let no good be the requital of anyone mentioning its name. At first, we were not in the habit of visiting that place; Never ever did we get away from it without paying dearly. Hear my imprecation, ‘May God turn it into a land of hearsay only!
’ Beyond any calculation are the losses it inflicted on us. Nothing escaped its damage, neither pack-camels nor our livestock, Neither the tents nor the furnishings, nor even their wooden poles, Not to mention the fine she-camels whose milk mixes with our water, Splendid animals with quivering humps, tall and erect, and slender necks. A land that ruined them should not receive its share of rain: May the white-blazed cumuli weave their course around it!
May it take eight full years before anyone cares to visit it, In retribution for what its infested waters did to the darkish-grey herds. A land populated with niggardly mountaineers and cattle-raisers Who do not shrink from setting their vicious dogs on our camels; Its womenfolk discard the veil without being put to shame: Ugh, I wish to God that plagues would carry away that breed of men. Their visitors they profess to welcome, but at no cost to them: Never did we see any of them staggering under hospitality’s heavy trays.
Lucky is the man whose only knowledge of them is by word of mouth, Who has wisely kept his distance from them, and has never set foot on their land! ’ Finally, I offer for your consideration a sort of “guide to more effective cursing” which always struck me as perfection. It’s offered by one of Dorothy Sayers’ Shrewsbury college alumni in the Lord Peter Wimsey mystery Gaudy Night: ‘My husband is writing a paper that contradicts all old Lambard’s conclusions, and I’m helping by toning down his adjectives and putting in deprecatory footnotes.
I mean, Lambard may be a perverse old idiot, but it’s more dignified not to say so in so many words. A bland and deadly courtesy is more devastating, don’t you think? ’ roseredcity's Recommendations Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Extraordinarily Deluxe Three-Disc Edition) Amazon List Price: $29.95 Used from: $16.01 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 7 reviews) Arabia of the Bedouins Amazon List Price: $29.95 Used from: $51.99 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 1 reviews) Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery) Amazon List Price: $7.99 Used from: $1.32 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 41 reviews) .
Mine comes partly from the movie, "The Italian Job" and partly from my youngest brother ... and not so much a curse as a reminder to be confident in myself. When they said they were "FINE", the group organizer reminded them that when they felt "FINE" they were saying that they were "Freaked out, Insecure, Neurotic, Emotional"; and that "IS NOT the way you should feel before, during or after ’The Job’! " This is how I feel a lot of the time and I am now OK with that.It reminds me that I am alive, human and normal...well...relatively speaking :-D My youngest brother made one up when he got mad because "we" did not say those other curses in the presence of my parents.
Once he got REALLY mad and had had enough, he would yell out with conviction, "POPCORN, POPCORN, POPCORN! " I have used this (in the privacy of my own home) and was surprised that I then started wanting to laugh instead and as the Reader’s Digest section says, "Laughter: The Best Medicine". We could all do with a little ’cleaner’ air, yes?
AND Laughter in place of anger. All the Best! Sources: Personal experience and a BIG LOVING Family!
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1 roseredcity: I LOVE Monty Python. I use "Your mother was a hampster and you father smelt of elderberries! " far to often for it to be funny anymore.
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Roseredcity: I LOVE Monty Python. I use "Your mother was a hampster and you father smelt of elderberries! " far to often for it to be funny anymore.
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Your 17 year old son curses you in a public place. How would you have handled it? This happened to my best friend.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.