Squirrel Slippers

Did you know that Cinderella's slippers in the were actual made of squirrel fur, not glass?  It seems kind of odd, even ironic, that a fairy tale, something stereotypically involving happy bunnies hopping through a magical forest, had animals being killed for footwear.  Oh and I guess I should clarify that when I refer to "Cinderella" I mean the familiar version by Charles Perrault.  As I'm sure many of you already know, there wasn't just one version of Cinderella, the oldest of which most historians will agree was the Chinese edition.  It concerned Yeh-Shen and her gold shoes (ouch!).  If you asked Freud, the slippers represented female genitalia.  Freud was also an advocate of Oedipus (or Electra for girls) Complex, so we know how long we need to consider that idea.  =)

Oh, and if you haven't heard/read yet, an Italian musician and computer technician claims to have discovered a 40-second Christian hymn by using the table in Da Vinci's ever-popular Last Supper as a music staff and turning the symbolic items on the table into notes!  Ha, ha... who is this guy, a musician or symbologist?  Not to mention he probably created his desired results first and found a convenient way to prove his outrageous claim.  It's all very politic, even the article's headline "Musician Solves Da Vinci Code".  What propaganda!  It had nothing to do with the novel The Da Vinci Code.  Unfortunately, the average, modern American's vocabulary sees "Da Vinci Code" and "Last Supper" as completely interchangeable synonyms.  How limited...  =(

This career-confused Italian (shame to him and his house for ruining the flawless name of Italy!) apparently has also published a book on it called The Hidden Music.  What a multi-tasker; he's a musician, computer geek, symbologist, historian, and author all in one in with undoubtable expertise in each of the former fields!  Congrats Mr. Pala!  You've officially made thousands off a bunch of gullible (or I have to give, curious) Americans!  Witness our genius and be awed!  And we wonder why we have so many problems...

I sure don't see hymn, do you???

However in all fairness, all this Da Vinci Code related controversy is creating quite the mini-Renaissance for Americans.  I've definitely noticed an increase in wanting to learn at least a little more about it.

But then again we also have gotten the stereotype on the Last Supper that everything about it is satanic heresy.  It goes both ways.  I can only hope people will look at things in an open-minded way (without having to become liberal Democrats!) (Just kidding!!!).

Tags: Life, Cinderella, Fairy Tales, F.W.C., Sigmund Freud, Da Vinci Code, Last Supper, Propaganda, Political Parties, Republicans, Democrats, Conservatism, Liberalism