Re: [DL] Manitou Name

[joe crow <crowboy-9@worldnet.att.net>]

on 9/15/00 6:13 PM, Daphne Brunelle at dbrune4@po-box.mcgill.ca wrote:

> *snip*
> 
>>> Possibly, I never could stand the Three Musketeers :-)
>>> 
>> Did you ever read the original (by which I mean an English translation of
>> the original French)?  But then it was written in 1845 as a play.
>> 
>> While the 1973 movie was enjoyable and "reasonably" accurate, the Disney
>> movie (1993) was total crap (I did enjoy Oliver Platt).  In any event the
>> last one can't be used to judge the story and certainly not the book.
>> 
> Was that the one with Gene Kelly, or the one with Michael York? 'Cause one
> was good and the other not (and I'm not saying which ;-).
> 
> You *could* call the manitou Milady if it's a female manitou -it's a
> sinister name even if you don't know its literary implications. Or Richelieu
> if it's male... or not *g*.

    Or you could just go with "De Rais"...

-- joe (call me Guy) crow

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