#the erl-king

[mournfulroses]

Angela Carter, from The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; “The Erl-King,”

[words-and-coffee]

There are some eyes that can eat you.

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories: The Erl-King

[wehavewords]

“His touch both consoles and devastates me; I go back and back to him to have his fingers strip the tattered skin away and clothe me in his dress of water, this garment that drenches me, its slithering odour, its capacity for drowning.”

Angela Carter, The Erl-King

[the-wandering-waif]

There is a black hole in the middle of both your eyes; it is their still centre, looking there makes me giddy, as if I might fall into it.

[poems-from-around-the-world]

The Erl-King - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Germany

Translator: Edgar Alfred Bowring (German)

Who rides there so late through the night dark and drear?

The father it is, with his infant so dear;

He holdeth the boy tightly clasp'd in his arm,

He holdeth him safely, he keepeth him warm.

"My son, wherefore seek'st thou thy face thus to hide?"

"Look, father, the Erl-King is close by our side!

Dost see not the Erl-King, with crown and with train?"

"My son, 'tis the mist rising over the plain."

"Oh, come, thou dear infant! oh come thou with me!

Full many a game I will play there with thee;

On my strand, lovely flowers their blossoms unfold,

My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold."

"My father, my father, and dost thou not hear

The words that the Erl-King now breathes in mine ear?"

"Be calm, dearest child, 'tis thy fancy deceives;

'Tis the sad wind that sighs through the withering leaves."

"Wilt go, then, dear infant, wilt go with me there?

My daughters shall tend thee with sisterly care

My daughters by night their glad festival keep,

They'll dance thee, and rock thee, and sing thee to sleep."

"My father, my father, and dost thou not see,

How the Erl-King his daughters has brought here for me?"

"My darling, my darling, I see it aright,

'Tis the aged grey willows deceiving thy sight."

"I love thee, I'm charm'd by thy beauty, dear boy!

And if thou'rt unwilling, then force I'll employ."

"My father, my father, he seizes me fast,

Full sorely the Erl-King has hurt me at last."

The father now gallops, with terror half wild,

He grasps in his arms the poor shuddering child;

He reaches his courtyard with toil and with dread,—

The child in his arms finds he motionless, dead.

[derangedrhythms]

His touch both consoles and devastates me […]

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; from ‘The Erl-King’

[rherlotshadow]

'His eyes are quite green, as if from too much looking at the wood.

There are some eyes can eat you.'

Angela Carter: 'The Erl King'

[the-final-sentence]

As he hobbled back toward his cabin, light leaked out of him with every step.

Julia Elliott, from "Erl King"

[doinggreat]

ERLING HAALAND 2023 Ballon D'or

[onepiecefashion]

Outfit for Brook

ERL Fall 2022

[coachtfd]

Every time I see Haaland score now I just think of the people who complain about how he “doesn’t do much else” beside score goals. As I’ve said before, Heaven forbid a striker does what they’re paid to do and frequently scores goals. You’re going to be hard-pressed to find a greater football purist than Guardiola these days and if he has no problem with the guy, maybe everyone else needs to relax a little. 😂🤦🏾‍♂️

[angelacarterfan]

Angela Carter quote of the day, from her 1979 Gothic short story "The Erl-King."

[words-and-coffee]

He strips me to my last nakedness, that underskin of mauve, pearlized satin, like a skinned rabbit; then dresses me again in an embrace so lucid and encompassing it might be made of water. And shakes over me dead leaves as if into the stream I have become. Sometimes the birds, at random, all singing, strike a chord. His skin covers me entirely; we are like two halves of a seed, enclosed in the same integument. I should like to grow enormously small, so that you could swallow me, like those queens in fairy tales who conceive when they swallow a grain of corn or a sesame seed. Then I could lodge inside your body and you would bear me.

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories: The Erl-King

[thewrongblues]

haaland finally doing the dutch braids I can rest well tonight

[godzilla-reads]

Up next: “The Erl-King” by Angela Carter.

I have read this story before, but I can’t recall the details. I’ve been itching to read it again and what do you know, it’s in this fairy book!

🧚‍♀️ Fearsome Fairies edited by Elizabeth Dearnley

[derangedrhythms]

There are some eyes can eat you.

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; from ‘The Erl-King’