Grendel Humor
Pg 7 -- "'No offense,' I say, with a terrible, sycophantish smile, and tip an imaginary hat."
Pg 168 -- "For pure, made prank, I snatch a cloth from the nearest table and tie it around my neck to make a napkin."
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posted by erdecker @ 7:14 AM
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Though really the entire spread of 72-73 is funny, this quote is on 73:
"If you withdraw, you'll instantly be replaced. Brute existents, you know, are a dime a dozen. No sentimental trash, then. If man's the irrelevance that interests you, stick with him! Scare him to glory! ...Ashes to ashes, slime to slime, amen."
From page 59:
"Now you know how they feel when they see you eh? Scared enough to pee in their pants! He he!" He looked startled by an unpleasant thought, then cross. "You didn't, did you?"
I shook my head.
"Good," he said. "That's valuable stuff you're standing on."
Now that is blatantly funny!
I thought this quote in ch. 9 was pretty funny. It was when Grendel had destroyed some statues of gods, and the people had to carve new statues. Grendel was considering wrecking them again, but then he said that it wouldn't be worth it, and that the gods were dull. He said,
"I have eaten several priests. They sit on the stomach like duck eggs." pg. 129
Meghan O'Keefe
pg-90
"I'll kill myself," he whishpered. He shook violently now.
"Up to you," I answered reasonably, "but you'll admit it may seem at least a trifle cowardly to some"
That scene gets me every time. Oh man! Its so hilarious!
This part on pg 93 also got to me
I will count my numberless blessings one by one.
1. My teeth are sound
1. The roof of my cave is sound.
1. I have not committed the ultimate act of nihilism: I have not killed the queen.
1. Yet.
It is so great! This monster is making a list of his blessings! He is socially outcast and he kills people, yet he makes a list. Maybe no one else finds it funny but I do.
One more thing. When Grendel is taunting Ork.
"We are pleased with you, Ork," I say, voice very solemn. Then suddenly impish-at times I cannot resist these things: "Tell us what you know of the King of the Gods."
Grendel is just so funny. Its great, there are too many instances when he laughs at his situations because he is observing how ridiculous they are.
-Lorelei
" I went on polishing the apple, smiling. "And the awful inconvenience," I said. "Always having to stand erect, always having to find noble language! It must wear on a man."
He looked hurt and slightly indignant. He'd understood.
"Wretched shape-" he said.
"But no doubt there are compensations," I said. "The pleasant feeling of vast superiority, the easy success with women-"
This quote on page 84 is helarious, it was so kind of Grendel to bring down Unferth with such a great sense of humor!
-David
The part where Grendel is mocking Unferth when he is serious about fighting Grendel is funny.
"Tell them in Hell that Unferth, son of Ecglaf sent you, known far and wide in these Scanian lands as a hero among the Scyldings." He took a few sidesteps, like on wrestler circling another, except that he was thirty feet away; the maneuver was ridiculous.
"Come,come," I said. "Let me tell them I was sent by Sideways-Walker."
Pages 82-83
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