The Grimm Reader does the Efftup Book tag. (Please don’t watch if not into efftup books)

[@thefont4345]

Us offended!?! 😂😂😂No, we don't have fine sensibilities, too much heat and too many flies🪰 what a great tag! I just saw Kit's version...you two have set the bar very high indeed. Wonderful cats, and I just finished watching your short cat video 😺💖loved it💖💖💖

[@thegrimmreader3649]

Glad to hear it Barb! (I didn’t *think* so...) Yeah the cat videos are fun for practicing editing and looking for music. Plus: cute kitties!! 😸😸😸

[@RememberedReads]

Heh, I love the way you slyly grinned while talking about the outcome of the pranked stories! 😆 And thanks for the tag! I'll have to come up with my list of favourite dismemberments in literature now... 😉

[@thegrimmreader3649]

good times, right?!? ;-)

[@RememberedReads]

@@thegrimmreader3649 Heh, and now I have to blame you for giving a Rammstein earworm for the weekend. I kept catching myself whisper-singing "Denn du bist was du isst...etc." to myself for at least three days! And I don't even like that song! 😂

[@thegrimmreader3649]

@@RememberedReads i don´t like it either, but that pun is pretty well, punny!!!! sorry about the creepy Rammstein earworm!! lol

[@foxedfolios]

OMG - I LOVE Struwwelpeter! I saw a junk opera version as adapted by The Tiger Lillies and it was fantastic. 🤩🤩💛

[@thegrimmreader3649]

Oh yes I've seen snippets of that on youtube--it's great!!

[@BookishTexan]

You are not boring! Max and Moritz (?) and blowing up a teacher is efft up. “If it’s efft up you gotta have an egg.” “An asceticism to his aestheticism” Very quotable today. I remember the satanic panic - listening to records backwards, preachers telling me music was a gateway to Satan, etc. Not a huge Rammstein fan.

[@ami1649]

I loved your answers. I assume you were referring to the song Deutschland at the end - very effed up!

[@thegrimmreader3649]

unfortunately the song I was referring to is even more efftup than that....I hesitate to post a link but, here you go: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Teil um ok I went back and watched Deutschland and it's pretty efft up as well!! lol. Thanks for watching and commenting Ami!

[@ami1649]

@@thegrimmreader3649 Indeed! I'm really interested in that Deutschland video because I think it raises questions that are relevant to Courtney Ferriter's video about Sylvia Plath's Daddy (did you see it by any chance?). Where do we draw the line between the appropriation/exploitation of historical trauma on the one hand and relevant/meaningful explorations of trauma on the other? How do our subjective artistic preferences guide what we decide to label as shocking-inappropriate vs. shocking-effective?

[@thegrimmreader3649]

@@ami1649 yes I watched it and replied, but mine was one of the comments that youtube swallowed up. It was a great video! I haven't thought deeply about the Rammstein's contribution to this, but my gut feeling would be to give Plath more of a pass than Till. I feel kind of "eh" about Rammstein. Their music isn't bad, but for some reason their transgressiveness feels sort of stale, bc unsurprising? It's like of COURSE they're going to write a song about that famous awful case bc: edgy. (and maybe the same for Deutschland, although I'd need to watch it more closely bf making an ultimate decison). I posted a link to an interesting pro Plath article: www.jstor.org/stable/1208714?seq=1

[@ami1649]

@@thegrimmreader3649 thank you for that article! I found the following quote to be especially thought provoking: "By its nature, when it comes to describing reality, art always demands a certain intensification, for many and various reasons. However, that is not the case with the Holocaust. Everything in it already seems so thoroughly unreal, as if it no longer belongs to the experience of our generation, but to mythology." This is how Maggie Nelson's writes about this question in Plath's poems in her book "The Art of Cruelty": The work of Walker and Plath makes ugly parallels, outrageous associations, and occasionally appalling speculative identifications. But why collapse these various operations into “exact equivalences,” even if just for critical panache? And why ring the “appropriateness” alarm, when the injunction to behave appropriately-as both Plath and Walker know well-is but a death knell for art-making, especially for women? ... We don’t have to agree, and we don’t have to like it. But why let it extinguish our capacity to differentiate between the many possible kinds of association that art sets into motion, such as metonymy, metaphor, simile, synecdoche, analogy, and allegory? Blurring out such distinctions delivers us into a world made up of simplified resemblances and amplified divergences-in short, a world deprived of its wide array of relationality.

[@attention5638]

Crime and Punishment will always be one of my favorite novels. And I am surprised to see "Against Nature." I have never seen anyone else talk about that book outside a few small circles. I read it because of Oscar Wilde, and thought it was a great novel. A time piece, for sure, but for a novel in which nothing really happens, it is good. haha.

[@theaelizabet]

Very interesting! Loved the opening!

[@thegrimmreader3649]

Thank you Thea!!

[@beatingaroundthebooks]

Came over after your comment on rainierbooks. Ha, zwei dumme, ein Gedanke! Great intro 👍 Somehow I'd lost you, probably because you changed your channel? Resubscribing now.

[@thegrimmreader3649]

yeah so sorry about the confusion there!!!

[@GuiltyFeat]

I just knew that Ms Grimm would have a firm handle on efftup tales for kids. Isn’t there also a German one about a kid who gets his thumbs amputated? Efftup!

[@thegrimmreader3649]

Yes! It is one of the Struweelpeter stories: "The Story of Little Suck-A-Thumb": germanstories.vcu.edu/struwwel/daumen_e.html Thanks so much for a fun tag Daniel!!

[@hesterdunlop7948]

@@thegrimmreader3649 Streweelpeter....my childhood companion , bookended with Hillare Belloc ...I blame my maiden aunt ...but fantastic ..loved them so much ...I had nightmares about Suck a Thumb ...I was that child ..

[@caroldefender4144]

Oh yes. Struwwelpeter is VERY efft up... so I de-efft it! I'm hoping to publish my lighter versions one day.

[@CourtneyFerriter]

I liked the opening - it had a good efftup vibe. 🙂 In the 1980s, there were a string of high profile cases of sexual assault and Satanic ritual allegations against daycares that became known as the 'Satanic panic,' but I think all of them were brought on by mass hysteria and there wasn't even one real case where that actually happened.

[@thegrimmreader3649]

yes that´s the vibe I was going for!! I gather most of the Satanic Panic cases have been overturned. The book is just ugh!!!! Thanks for watching and commenting!!

[@jacmaria]

I am struck by the book covers, seems very much like pandering