Week 5 Reading Diary, continued: Twenty-Two Goblins

Twenty Two Goblins, Arthur W. Ryder

City on the Ganges

This is one of my favorite pictures, it looks so surreal and I couldn't even imagine actually being there in person!

"Oh beautiful, my darling! Fair as the moon! White as the moonlight! Was the night jealous of your beauty? Did she carry you away?..." -Hariswami when he saw his wife was gone when he awoke. I love the detail of him describing his wife and her beauty and the emotion he had when he couldn't find her, later on they describe him "sobbing" and in "great pain."

"In this city lived a strong armed king named Hero-banner, who protected the world as a wall protects a city.." This was a cool quote because it somewhat described the power of this King... it will be interesting to learn more about the king throughout the next few sections.

^The picture below is a city called Golden City, which was on the bank of the Ganges. It describes the city and says "where a quarter of the old perfect virtue still lingers in these evil days." There was a king named Glorious and was thought to definitely deserve the name because of how brave he was. He "kept the world from being overflowed,  like the shore of the sea."

This section discusses a group of four brothers and what they do after their father dies. They took all the money and felt like they had nothing else to do where they were now and felt they needed to move onto somewhere else and went on long journey only to end up at their grandfathers house. They also brought a lion back to life, who ends up killing them eventually.

There is a city called Beautiful and in this city, people lived as happily as they did in heaven. I thought this section was interesting because earlier in the semester, I basically wrote about a world of happiness and no sin and living in a perfect world, which basically what the city Beautiful was.

"In the morning, the blessed sun arose in the east, stretching out his rays like hands to warn the king not to go in the forest where robbers lived." This was a really cool quote as it referred to the sun as being the one to guide the king where to NOT go. This is an interesting type of writing that I might look into when writing my next story.



"My son, you did well to kill this sham monk who tried by force to become the king of fairies." In the conclusion, Shiva gives his son the sword, passing along the torch in a way, and he goes off with all the gods.