a fruit for October

[amelia_petkova]

I don't know what it is that's making me post on LJ so often this October, but I like it!

So I'm working on a writing exercise that involves the painting "Proserpine" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (see my user icon). There's a pomegranate in it, I got to thinking about the Persephone myth, and...

How awesome would it have been on so many symbological levels if in the movie Labyrinth, Jareth had given Sarah a pomegranate instead of a peach? I started grinning just thinking about it. The only drawback is that a pomegranate is a hell of a lot harder to eat.

Comments

[lotesse]

I always connect it to the peach in Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market."

[amelia-petkova.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about "Goblin Market" too, while writing. Oh, goblins.