{"id":3651,"date":"2014-07-30T12:45:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T18:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/summathissummathat\/?p=3651"},"modified":"2017-03-17T15:04:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T21:04:54","slug":"jeeves-reading-wildely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/summathissummathat\/2014\/07\/jeeves-reading-wildely\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeeves, Reading Wildely"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Here\u2019s a wonderful YouTube video of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/8164\/8164-h\/8164-h.htm\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">my man Jeeves<\/a> (a.k.a.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/JQ_R8QBeYvs\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stephen Fry<\/a>) reading one of my favorite fairy tales of all time: Oscar Wilde\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/30120\/30120-h\/30120-h.htm\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cThe Happy Prince:\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t33NWgOzjK8\" width=\"610\" height=\"60\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cYou have rightly chosen,\u201d said God, \u201cfor in my garden of Paradise this little bird shall sing for evermore, and in my city of gold the Happy Prince shall praise\u00a0me.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026and\u2026um\u2026I think I got <a href=\"http:\/\/gph.is\/1afVtSa\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">something in my eye<\/a>\u2026a bit\u00a0of dust, or something.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not a huge fan of the visuals associated with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenfry.com\/2008\/12\/01\/stephen-fry-presents-a-selection-of-oscar-wildes-short-stories\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">this recording<\/a>, hence the tiny video, which allows one to focus more satisfyingly\u00a0on Fry\u2019s mellifluousness. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/501402709\/oscar-wildes-the-happy-prince-with-stephen-fry\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">This project<\/a>, on the other hand,\u00a0is much more promising. Though it might also be dead. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/501402709\/oscar-wildes-the-happy-prince-with-stephen-fry\/posts\/848302\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Or not<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/8Aank8bDtcE\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Christopher Plummer\u2019s turn<\/a> narrating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0071596\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Michael Mills\u2019 animated version<\/a> is also wonderful, though again, the visuals leave me mostly unexcited. At least they\u2019re more than just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/kenburns\/about-the-filmmakers\/ken-burns\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Burns-y pictures<\/a>. P. Craig Russell\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsbulletin.com\/reviews\/4533\/review-fairy-tales-of-oscar-wilde-the-happy-prince\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">comic book version<\/a>, on the other hand, is a visual marvel. Can\u2019t we find some way to combine Russell and Fry?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/109\/2014\/07\/HappyPrince.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12071\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/109\/2014\/07\/HappyPrince.jpg\" alt=\"HappyPrince\" width=\"610\" height=\"724\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a wonderful YouTube video of\u00a0my man Jeeves (a.k.a.\u00a0Stephen Fry) reading one of my favorite fairy tales of all time: Oscar Wilde\u2019s \u201cThe Happy Prince:\u201d \u201cYou have rightly chosen,\u201d said God, \u201cfor in my garden of Paradise this little bird shall sing for evermore, and in my city of gold the Happy Prince shall praise\u00a0me.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1286,"featured_media":12071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quodlibets"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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