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It never occurred to me that nursery rhymes can be scary. I just thought Humpty Dumpty was very fragile and that his fate was supposed to be a lesson in being careful; in not taking unnecessary risks. Why sit on a wall if you're an egg? Beats me.
Well, I've been rewatching Steven Spielberg's Taken and Dakota Fanning's narration never fails to move me. If I can write the work of my life, I hope to do it the way Leslie Bohem wrote Taken.
When I was very little, my mother would read Nursery Rhymes to me. I always hated Humpty Dumpty. That's a very scary poem. No one knows how to put it back together again–Not all the king's horses, or all the king's men.
No one wants to think that there's anything that can fall apart that badly, but, of course…anything can.
I guess that's what's so scary about Humpty Dumpty.
–Allie
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Dakota was truly awesome in that movie.
Posted by otto at November 14, 2007, 10:31 pm