KitanaVorr
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The quote comes from Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott which is his version of the story of Lancelot and Elaine.
The Lady of Shalott is a magical being who lives alone on an island upstream from King Arthur's Camelot. She looks out at the world outside her castle window using a mirror and weaves what she sees into a tapestry. She is forbidden by the magic to look at the outside world directly. The farmers who live near her island hear her singing and know who she is, but never see her.
The Lady sees ordinary people, loving couples, and knights in pairs reflected in her mirror. One day, she sees the reflection of Sir Lancelot riding alone. Although she knows that it is forbidden, she looks out the window at him. The mirror shatters, the tapestry flies off on the wind, and the Lady feels the power of her curse.
An autumn storm suddenly arises. The lady leaves her castle, finds a boat, writes her name on it, gets into the boat, sets it adrift, and sings her death song as she drifts down the river to Camelot. The locals find the boat and the body, realize who she is, and are saddened. Lancelot prays that God will have mercy on her soul.
Lancelot's refrain "tirra lirra" is a direct allusion to Autolycus' song in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale in which he refers to "tumbling in the hay" with his "aunts" (prostitutes). It serves to highlight the Lady's repressed emotions and sexual tensions.
In this case it is the repressed sexual emotions of a not yet sexually mature Stacy and a horny 15 year old Chris. Notice that it is Lancelot aka Chris who sings this song and it is the Lady of Shallot who listens and turns away from her work to look at him.
Chris is Lancelot and Stacy is the Lady of Shallot. Lana calls him Lancelot because she thinks he'll hurt her twin because she sees that Stacy is like the Lady who looks at things through the reflection of her own beliefs (that world is good and everything is hunky dory) and that Chris will be the one who will break her mirror and hurt her.
The quote I used is the part right before Lancelots song and image causes the lady to turn, see him, and destroy her life with her broken mirror.
LOL wow I hope you don't mind me continually hijacking your game for literary lessons because Lana's going to have plenty of those coming up. She's a very smart girl.
The Lady of Shalott is a magical being who lives alone on an island upstream from King Arthur's Camelot. She looks out at the world outside her castle window using a mirror and weaves what she sees into a tapestry. She is forbidden by the magic to look at the outside world directly. The farmers who live near her island hear her singing and know who she is, but never see her.
The Lady sees ordinary people, loving couples, and knights in pairs reflected in her mirror. One day, she sees the reflection of Sir Lancelot riding alone. Although she knows that it is forbidden, she looks out the window at him. The mirror shatters, the tapestry flies off on the wind, and the Lady feels the power of her curse.
An autumn storm suddenly arises. The lady leaves her castle, finds a boat, writes her name on it, gets into the boat, sets it adrift, and sings her death song as she drifts down the river to Camelot. The locals find the boat and the body, realize who she is, and are saddened. Lancelot prays that God will have mercy on her soul.
Lancelot's refrain "tirra lirra" is a direct allusion to Autolycus' song in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale in which he refers to "tumbling in the hay" with his "aunts" (prostitutes). It serves to highlight the Lady's repressed emotions and sexual tensions.
In this case it is the repressed sexual emotions of a not yet sexually mature Stacy and a horny 15 year old Chris. Notice that it is Lancelot aka Chris who sings this song and it is the Lady of Shallot who listens and turns away from her work to look at him.
Chris is Lancelot and Stacy is the Lady of Shallot. Lana calls him Lancelot because she thinks he'll hurt her twin because she sees that Stacy is like the Lady who looks at things through the reflection of her own beliefs (that world is good and everything is hunky dory) and that Chris will be the one who will break her mirror and hurt her.
The quote I used is the part right before Lancelots song and image causes the lady to turn, see him, and destroy her life with her broken mirror.
LOL wow I hope you don't mind me continually hijacking your game for literary lessons because Lana's going to have plenty of those coming up. She's a very smart girl.
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wow, great job Kit.
lol its worse than being drunk for me.
