fractured fairy tales (for those of us who have seen rocky & bullwinkle)

So I haven't even really worked it out in my head but I thinking of doing my paper on a fairy tale and then comparing it to other versions of it, like Kelly Link version and another version. Since I love Gregory Maguire's books, I thinking of either Cinderella or Snow White, because he has a version of his own of those two fairy tales. So if anyone knows of any other versions of either story please post a blog here or you can tell me about it in class Tuesday.

Zora and the Zombie

While trying to find one of the stories on the list I ran into, this one, and of course had to read it. I thought it an interesting peice saying a lot about zombies and exploring them more on a Link type frame and less hollywood. I thought the flow of the story kind of strange, but maybe that was becasue I didn't read it through in one sitting. Anyway for us procrastinator type that want to do anything but think of paper ideas...here's an outlet for that maybe...if you've read it or need something else beside paper to do let me know what you think.

Paper ideas

I am thinking about exploring the role of sex in Kelly Link and Neil Gaiman's respective works. Not only is sex a part of everyone's lives in some way or another, these authors commandeer it as a tool for the dynamic actions of their plots. Obviously Gaiman is full of little scenarios, but I am having trouble deciding which Link examples to use. Any thoughts?

The importance of myth

From A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong:

"We are meaning-seeking creatures. Dogs, as far as we know, do not agonize about the canine condition, worry about the plight of dogs in other parts of the world, or try to see their lives from a different perspective. But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value."