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Living Dead (Thirteen)

ROVE: The more recent versions of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty are way cleaned up compared to their necrophiliac history.
RUMMY: Ask any pre-pubescent girl and it’s a white-night story about ever-lasting love. Not about fucking dead girls!
ROVE: It’s an old story that goes back thousands of years.
RUMMY: In the Disney versions, she’s not dead, just sleeping.
ROVE: The Grimms Brothers toned it WAY down! Take Giambattista Basile’s “Sun, Moon and Talia.” The version of the Snow White story is from a few hundred years earlier. I quote: “When the king beheld Talia, who seemed to be enchanted, he believed she was asleep, and he called her, but she remained unconscious. Crying aloud, he beheld her charms and felt his blood course through his veins. He lifted her in his arms, and carried her towards his bed, where he gathered the first fruits of love.”
RUMMY: Incestuous bastard!
ROVE: It doesn’t end there. In Sleeping Beauty there’s another good quote: “There rained all over a fruitful silence; the image of death everywhere showed itself, and there was nothing to be seen but stretched out bodies of animals, all seeming to be dead.” It wasn’t just Sleeping Beauty who was dead, I mean EVERYONE was DEAD!
RUMMY: Pretty bleak stuff, I’ll give you that.
ROVE: There’s more. I’ve been reading them all day. Take the story “Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree.” The quote is: “When the prince came home and found Gold-Tree dead, he was in a great sorrow, and when he saw how beautiful she was, he did not bury her at all, but he locked her in a room where nobody could get to her.” And Maria, in “The Wicked Stepmother, and the Seven Robbers”, had this to say: “She looked through the keyhole, and when she saw her son was kneeling next to a corpse, she had the door broken down.”
RUMMY: Those randy Italian CORPSEFUCKERS!
ROVE: In “The Crystal Casket”, also Italian by the way, we get a real sense of the living dead zombie aspect of the myth. “So they broke open the door and saw the poor girl with the beautiful dress on, but she was dead… The chambermaids fell on their knees before him saying the doll smelled so badly that they could not stay in the palace, and were obliged to bury her.”
RUMMY: Are you saying Walt Disney was fucking little dead girls?
ROVE: Disney is way creepier than Lewis Carroll. The ANTI-SEMITE NAZI CORPSFUCKER’s major animated films are all about necrophilia!
RUMMY: Any stories in there about fucking dead boys?