Siegfried!

[kellan_the_tabby]

With some help from giselle0002, I have named the rat Siegfried.

Comments

A right proper name . . .

[giselle0002.livejournal.com]

I've always loved the images Siegfried evokes. What better Germanic Hero?

But when I Googled to find something on him, I found a page on Siegfried Sassoon . . . a young, embittered WWI soldier turned poet. His tone and views seem to match well with you, darlin.

http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/projects/jtap/tutorials/intro/sassoon/

The Mythological Siegfried is cool in other ways . . . http://www.timelessmyths.com/norse/german.html#Siegfried

And now I'm going to go throw many things away.

Hugs and all . . .

Re: A right proper name . . .

[kellan_the_tabby]

Wow. Yeah, he's ... I don't know the word; 'sarcastic' isn't quite the right one...

Re: A right proper name . . .

[giselle0002.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sarcastic doesn't seem to quite catch the truth of it . .. but he's certainly letting the sanctimonious, self-righteous citizens who make war with other people's lives have it with both barrells . . .

[montuos]

"So Siegfried pulls out the sword that's stuck in the tree that grows in the house that Jack, er, Hunding built..."

[kellan_the_tabby]

*laughs madly*

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

"He's very young, and he's very strong, and he's very brave, and he's very handsome, and he's very STUPID..." --more from Anna Russell on Siegfried

[kellan_the_tabby]

*giggles*

He's reasonably smart, but other than that...

Anna Russell

[maziemaus.livejournal.com]

She is so very funny, isn't she? I've heard one of her albums. The one with the ladies club and how to write a gilbert & sullivan opera and the ring cycle piece. Are there more, do you know?

Re: Anna Russell

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

We have her first four albums on vinyl (swiped from montuos's old family home before it burned):

Anna Russell Sings?
Anna Russell Sings! Again? [this is the one you've heard]
Anna Russell's Guide to Concert Audiences
A Square Talk on Popular Music (or, The Decline and Fall of the Popular Song)

We also have three compilation CD's:
The Anna Russell Album? [includes the three routines you've heard]
Encore?
Again?

The liner notes to Again? indicate that one of the later LPs was called Anna Russell in Darkest Africa.

Anyway, I found a fan page: The Anna Russell Shrine? (http://annarussellshrine.tripod.com/) so you can check it out.

[ohiblather.livejournal.com]

Siegfried is a fine name for a rat.
Congrats! :-)

[kellan_the_tabby]

Thank you! I shall tell him you said so.

*grins*