“A simple traditional song or poem for children” (Oxford Dictionaries)
The Difficulty of Defining Nursery Rhymes
Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon
Nursery Rhymes and (cynical) jokes
– rebellion against authority
- releasing taboos in polite society
Walls.
I mean, the first lines...
"Tom woke up, but Tim did not."
Daddy, I had a dream.
I heard a sound.
Uh, what sort of sound, Ruth?
Its in the house,
but its trying to be quiet.
[Exhales]
Hmm.
Well, lets go look for it then.
Its a sound thats trying to be quiet?
What did it sound like?
It was a sound like someone
trying not to make a sound.
Your penis looks funny.
My penis is funny.
Come out s
Novel
by Shirley Jackson
11/10/98
Initial Shooting Script
NOTE: THE HARD COPY OF THIS SCRIPT CONTAINED SCENE NUMBERS.
THEY HAVE BEEN REMOVED FOR THIS SOFT COPY.
BEGIN MAIN TITLE SEQUENCE.
At the very edge of hearing, the tone of human VOICES.
Unintelligible, babbling, eerie. Then a loud FLAPPING SOUND.
It shifts from one side of the theater to the other, like
something moving among the wall hangi
wall on pegs. He helps himself to one
and eases outside, making good his escape.
??
EXT. NURSING HOME - ESTABLISHING - MORNING
??
Nestled in a valley of wooded hills, a drizzly mist rolling
over the treetops.
??
Paul appears f.g., coming up the ridge in his borrowed
poncho. He looks back at the valley below, inhales deeply--
this is a man who loves his walks.
He pulls a piece of toast from his po
walls blur past as the panel van descends a
circular ramp to a lower level. As it straightens out, the
view through the windshield reveals a gathering of men and
vehicles - marked and unmarked DC police cars - and two black
SWAT vans.
The panel van - with Marcells Crab House painted on its
sides - pulls to a stop. The back doors open from the inside
and Starling is the first one out - well-rested