I'm in ur former colony, appropriating ur holiday.*

[alexandraerin]

As an American, my first exposure to Guy Fawkes came from a fantasy novel by Diana Wynne Jones, Witch Week. It wasn't a very sympathetic portrayal... it postulated that Fawkes's failure was a multiversal constant to the point that if there was a universe wherein the plot he undertook succeeded, it would be the equivalent of a Crisis-level reality fracturing event.

It's still possibly a better portrayal than the rather unflattering portrayal that Google has chosen to put on their main page for Bonfire Day.

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*Note: Nebraska was never actually a colony.

Comments

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

They had Big Bird on there yesterday, so there must be some sort of Sesame Street anniversary going on this week. I don't think Cookie Monster is meant to relate to November 5th. :)

[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine has a sig that mentions "Guy Fawkes - the only man ever to enter Parliament with honest intentions"

[ionicaq.livejournal.com]

Why is the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street offensive to Bonfire Day...?

[brenda-ea.livejournal.com]

Witch Week was the first I ever heard of Guy Fawkes as well! Funny, I just finished reading the latest Chrestomanci book...

[thegreenyear.livejournal.com]

oddly, witch week was also my first exposure to guy fawkes.

[mazzon.livejournal.com]

I can't help but be amused by how positively people nowadays regard Fawkes while at the same time hating and fearing terrorists so much. The guy was a terrorist, he tried to blow up a big house full of people. The traditional way to celebrate his memory is to burn him in effigy.
But yeah, I suppose a couple of works of fiction that depict him or someone fashioned after him in some way positively count for more than that. Carry on.

[andy9306.livejournal.com]

This is also where I first came across him. I had forgotten the title of the book though... I wonder if there aren't a few left in the series for me to read....

[zathras-ix.livejournal.com]

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/255184/november-05-2009/guy-fawkers