Two interpretations

Written by eklastic
“About luck”

“Luckdragon”

Both these artists delivered a piece for the theme “luck” or “lucky”. Which speaks more to you?

Ragtag Daily Prompt: Lucky

15 thoughts on “Two interpretations”

    1. Me too. I guess I gave it away by which photo I used as the featured one. I appreciate the sandstone but if the artist had named it “despair” I would have gone with that as well. The dragon is unambiguous.

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    1. It’s a luckdragon – that’s the kind of dragon from “The Neverending Story” by Michael Ende (a successful and wonderful children’s novel). Was made into a successful (but mediocre, at times bad) movie in the 1980s, and was a very successful BA (Honours) thesis in German Lang&Lit by yours truly. Luckdragons live on warmth, luck, and son beams. Even if they are so badly named (Falkor in the English translation, Fuchur in the German original – try to pronounce that in English … I guess Michael Ende did not think he’d write an internationaly successful novel).

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      2. I don’t know if you ever read the Neverending Story or even just held one. It is writting in 2 different colours: dark red for the real world, teal (dark turquoise) for the fantasy/book world. In 1985 this was difficult to manage to reproduce, I had a daisywheel printer and I used 3 different fonts for the thesis. I had to stop the computer, manually change the daisywheel to a different font, keep printing and hand feeding paper etc. with a programm that only allowed 115 lines per file … I remember that it took me more than 3 days just printing the darn thing (~200 pages), almost non-stop. That’s what I remember. I do not remember what I had to say about the novel. Just enough to remember that the film was sh … and never really managed to get the feeling of the novel across.

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      4. It’s a children’s novel but it is a good read (at least I think it has stood the time). It’s about the fact that books can heal but also that the world of books needs readers).

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    1. Times were different. At first I had a travelling typewriter while most of my fellow students handed their essays in handwritten. Then we bought a computer and I had a nine pin printer (as was the normal, affordable solution). My lectureres (Drama!) refused to accept computer written essays because I didn’t do the work myself (that’s almost 50 years before ChatGPT) and we bought a daisywheel printer. From then on I got extra marks for the neat typing (!). But it wasn’t perfect and it certainly wasn’t fast.

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