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The short story includes the theme of memory which pervades a great deal of Crowley's work, notably Ariel Hawksquill's "magic" in Little, Big and the Pierce's quest in The Solitudes. By the end of the story, the narrator prefers involuntary memory to that which is either significantly detailed, or technologically preserved.
BYU Motion Picture Studios made a short film based upon the story in 1973. The film was produced by Wetzel Whitaker and Keith Atkinson, with a screenplay by Carol Lynn Pearson. A DVD of the film is available through BYU's Creative Works Office. Both the film and the story have since been used in moral education as part of anti-bullying ...
"The Snowman" (Danish: Sneemanden) is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a snowman who falls in love with a stove. [1] It was published by C.A. Reitzel in Copenhagen as Sneemanden on 2 March 1861. [2]
The story was the inspiration for an instrumental song of the same name by guitarist Jim Matheos on his first solo album, First Impressions. The story inspired the song "Silent Snow" by musician Scott Appel on his album Nine of Swords. The story inspired the song "KEROSENE" by musician OF SAINT.
Writing in The New York Times in 1984, Franco Ferrucci noted of Calvino that: "Even early in his career, his rhetorical virtuosity disguised the subtlety and depth of his vision - especially in some of the stories in Marcovaldo, like The City Lost in the Snow, A Saturday of Sun, Sand and Sleep and The Wrong Stop. He writes lightly and jauntily ...
The novel is the basis for multiple films, including the French A Rare Bird (1935), the Czechoslovak Three Men in the Snow (1936), the Swedish Poor Millionaires (1936), the American Paradise for Three (1938), the Austrian Three Men in the Snow (1955) and the West German Three Men in the Snow (1974). [3]
The heroine of the story, Tira, is an Indian Londoner who initially survives the snowfall by staying on the surface of the snow. Once the snow begins to bury even the highest buildings, she meets a worker from the London Underground and they both survive by sheltering in a high-rise office building and living off supplies that they have cached and can forage for.
Toilet humour is sometimes found in song and rhyme, particularly schoolboy songs. Examples of this are found in Mozart and scatology, and variants of the German folk schoolboys' song known as the Scheiße-Lied (English: "Shit-Song") [5] [6] which is indexed in the German Volksliederarchiv. [7]